J.D. Rockefeller, Jr. – Vintage 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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J.D. Rockefeller, Jr. comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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J.D. Rockefeller, Jr.
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John D. Rockefeller Jr. is the subject of this glass negative, one of the portrait sittings made by the Bain News Service, a New York picture agency that sold news photographs to newspapers from the early 1900s. The Bain collection holds more than 30,000 such negatives, and the agency's photographers often worked quickly, supplying images of businessmen, politicians and public figures for same-day publication. The record gives no date for this sitting, and the title comes from caption cards that the agency itself did not verify, so the exact occasion is unknown. Rockefeller, the son of Standard Oil founder John D. Rockefeller, was known in his era for philanthropy and for his role in managing the family's wealth.
| 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 four loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 3,384 × 4,941 px · prints to 11 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-19401 |
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