Prof. Frederick Starr – 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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Prof. Frederick Starr comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Prof. Frederick Starr
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Frederick Starr (1858-1933) was an American anthropologist and professor who taught at the University of Chicago and traveled widely to study peoples in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Japan. This glass negative, one of the 8 by 10 inch plates from the George Grantham Bain Collection, shows him as the press photographers of the Bain News Service recorded public figures in New York during the early 1900s. The title comes from caption information the agency wrote on the negative or its card, which the Library of Congress notes has not been independently verified, so the sitting's date and occasion are unknown. Glass plates like this one preserve sharp detail that makes them valuable to researchers of the period.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch one loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,534 × 7,145 px · prints to 18 × 24 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-2502 |
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