Jos. Schwarz and wife – Antique Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Jos. Schwarz and wife comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Jos. Schwarz and wife
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Few details survive for this glass negative beyond its title, which names Jos. Schwarz and his wife as the sitters. The image belongs to the George Grantham Bain Collection at the Library of Congress, made up of pictures issued by the Bain News Service, a New York agency that supplied news photographs to newspapers from the early 1900s until the 1920s. The Bain files were built from negatives that were often captioned in haste, so the names here come from the agency's own notes and have not been independently verified. Glass plates like this one were the standard working medium of press photographers of the period, and their sharp detail is part of why the collection remains a useful record of everyday American life.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch seven loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 7,468 × 5,124 px · prints to 25 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-35034 |
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