Dubar Wright, Count De Boliac – Historic Reproduction
(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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A window into the past: Dubar Wright, Count De Boliac, preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Dubar Wright, Count De Boliac
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The title pairs two names, Dubar Wright and Count De Boliac, but the record flags them as unverified, taken from data written on the negative or its caption card, so the identities should be treated as provisional. The glass plate comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, which preserves the work of the Bain News Service, a New York picture agency that supplied photographs of notable people and events to newspapers in the early 1900s. Many of the agency's subjects were public figures, and its plates were often reprinted, so this one offers a glimpse of how commercial news photography recorded names and identities for publication. With no firm date on file, the most reliable reading is as a working example of that trade.
| 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 | 4,153 × 3,378 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-27349 |
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