George Grantham Bain

George Grantham Bain
Born	(1865-01-07)January 7, 1865 Chicago, Illinois
Died	April 20, 1944(1944-04-20) (aged 79) New York City, New York
Known for	Father of foreign photographic news
Parent(s)	George Bain Clara Mather

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

Biography

He was born in Chicago, Illinois on January 7, 1865 to George Bain and Clara Mather. His family moved from Chicago to St. Louis, Missouri. He attended Saint Louis University as an undergraduate where he studied chemistry. He then attained a law degree from the same institution.

After graduation he became a reporter at the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The following year he moved to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch where he became the Washington, DC correspondent.

He worked for United Press before he started the Bain News Service in 1898.

He died on April 20, 1944 in Manhattan.

George Grantham Bain Collection

Most of the images are originals of events in New York City, but he also copied existing images of worldwide events for distribution to newspapers.

Most of his photographs date from the 1900s to about 1930 but some images date from the 1860s and some are from the 1930s. His 40,000 glass negatives are with the Library of Congress in the Prints and Photographs Division. Most are scanned and are available online. There are no known restrictions on the photographs in the George Grantham Bain Collection. Some of his most important images were marked with a copyright notice to prevent unauthorized distribution.

Gallery

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  Two girls wearing banners with slogan "ABOLISH CH[ILD] SLAVERY!!" in English and Yiddish, 1909
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  Albertina Rasch, gypsy dance, 1915
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  Alexandra Fyodorovna
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  Argentine Rivadavia-class battleship, 1912
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  The "Bennett Sisters" boxing.
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  Four men with wreckage of Blériot's plane at Reims, 1909
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  The Brox Sisters, posed with toy car. Left to right: Loryane, Bobbe, Patricia.
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  Christ, played by Anton Lang, at the Oberammergau Passion Play, 1900
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  Doris Kenyon
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  Photograph showing gun shop at Armstrong Works, 1902–1903
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  Pair of 12 inch guns on HMS Dreadnought, between 1907-1922
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  Helen Dinsmore Huntington
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  Joe Dawson winning the 1912 Indianapolis 500 race, 1912
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  Nestorian (Assyrian) Christian family making butter in Mawana, Persia, date unknown
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  American actress Blanche Bates, dressed for a role in "The Fighting Hope," date not recorded
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  Race car driver Bob Burman, 1911
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  Actress Lillian Gish, 1911
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  Mary Magdalen, played by Bertha Wolf, at the Oberammergau Passion Play, 1900
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  Actress Mildred Davis, 1921
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  Actress Pauline Frederick, date unknown
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  Princess Marie of Romania, as a child, when she was Princess of Romania
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  Actress Ruth St. Denis, date unknown
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  Actress Viola Dana, date unknown
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  Making of a death mask, 1908
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  Lucio Blanco and staff, circa 1913
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  Charles Lindbergh circa 1927 ©

External links

• George Grantham Bain photograph archive at Flickr
• George Grantham Bain photograph archive at Library of Congress