George Grantham Bain

George Grantham Bain (January 7, 1865 – April 20, 1944) was an American photographer. He was known as "the father of foreign photographic news".

George Grantham Bain Collection The George Grantham Bain Collection at the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division comprises approximately 40,000 glass plate negatives and 50,000 photographic prints. Most are scanned and have been made available online. Most date from the 1900s to the mid-1920s, but some are as early as the 1860s, and some as late as the 1930s.

The majority of Bain's images depict events in New York City, but he also copied extant images of worldwide events for news distribution purposes. although some of Bain's most important images had historically been marked with a copyright notice to prevent unauthorized distribution.

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