Horace Fletcher (Bain News Service portrait)
photograph · 1910
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SUMMARY
A Bain News Service press portrait of Horace Fletcher held in the George Grantham Bain Collection at the Library of Congress (LCCN 2014683885); the glass negative is captioned with his name, so the identification rests on the archive record itself. The Library records no known restrictions on publication. The image is undated and is placed in the early twentieth century, the period of Fletcher's fame as 'the Great Masticator.' This is the same Library of Congress press-photo collection that holds the Metchnikoff portrait used elsewhere in the archive.
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The actor portrait for the Fletcher case. A standard press portrait from the Bain News Service, now in the Library of Congress George Grantham Bain Collection, with no known publication restrictions. The negative carries Fletcher’s name, which satisfies the archive’s source-title identification rule. The image is undated; it is assigned to the early twentieth century, consistent with Fletcher’s appearance and the period of his public fame.