Category:George Grantham Bain Collection

**Bain Collection**
	image collection held by the Library of Congress
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Instance of	collection; fonds;
Main subject	World War I; Mexican Revolution; New York City; aviation; celebrity; sport;
Location	United States of America;
Owned by	Library of Congress (1948–);
Collection	Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division;
Start time	1948;
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	Q67388890;
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Dates[edit]

The collection is in chronological order and some of the glass negatives have dates on them. Occasionally a negative was misfiled, especially when it was reused at a later date, and may appear out of order. Some of the photos are copies made of older stock photos of famous people, but the majority are images of contemporary events that can be dated from newspaper articles. The photographers had a penchant for opera singers, and in some cases may take a dozen photos of the singer. At least one photographer made a large series of opera stars at the stage entrance to the Metropolitan Opera House. Another photographer would go to arriving and departing ships and find out what celebrity was aboard. If there was no celebrity he would take a photo of any local pretty woman aboard. The Bain negatives have a number on each photo which appears to be a sequential number for each batch developed in the darkroom. The batch number is followed by a dash and a second sequential number which represents the order in which they were developed in that batch. Some photos were taken at the Bain studio and the shelves of archived photos are visible in the background. (Source: Richard Arthur Norton in 2020)

Copyright[edit]

The Library of Congress writes: "There are no known copyright restrictions on the photographs in the George Grantham Bain Collection. Publicity rights may apply."