Count Salm – 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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This historic photograph of Count Salm brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Count Salm
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A single glass negative titled "Count Salm" is the only detail the record gives, and the title itself is unverified, taken from caption cards or negative markings made by the Bain News Service. Without a date or a confirmed identity, the sitter cannot be pinned down; the noble title suggests a European aristocrat, and several men of the Salm family were prominent in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The Bain News Service was a New York picture agency that supplied newspapers with portraits and news photographs in the early 1900s, and its small glass plates were prized for their fast, direct reportage. Viewers should treat the name as a lead for further research rather than a settled fact.
| 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 six loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 3,403 × 4,953 px · prints to 11 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-26360 |
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