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Mrs. Emily N. Blair – Historic Photograph Print

Mrs. Emily N. Blair, [ca. 1920] — historic photograph
Mrs. Emily N. Blair, [ca. 1920]. Historic photograph from the National Photo Company collection.

(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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Mrs. Emily N. Blair comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Mrs. Emily N. Blair

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This portrait of Mrs. Emily N. Blair survives as an 8 by 6 inch glass negative, a format that captured fine detail in studio and outdoor portraits of the early twentieth century. The National Photo Company, a Washington, D.C., commercial studio active from the first decade of the 1900s into the 1920s, produced large numbers of such negatives, and its collection now at the Library of Congress documents the city's public life and everyday residents. The sitter's name comes from notes written on the negative or its sleeve and has not been independently verified, so the identification should be treated as provisional. The glass also shows streaks and blemishes from the gradual breakdown of its original coating, which are worth noticing when studying the image.

Created / published[ca. 1920]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 6 in.
GenreGlass negatives.
NotesTitle from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Date from negatives in same range. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. This glass negative might show streaks and other blemishes resulting from a natural deterioration in the original coatings. Temp. note: Batch six.
SourceLibrary of Congress, National Photo Company Collection
Original scan5,513 × 7,122 px · prints to 18 × 24 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-NPC-258637

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