Stunning photos from one of America s earliest news picture agencies
Incredible photographs taken by one of America s earliest news picture agencies have emerged, with Titanic survivors, teenage suffragettes and even royalty among the images. The pictures were produced and gathered for worldwide distribution by George Grantham Bain through his Bain News Service. The service was established in 1898 by Bain, who was known as the father of photographic news , in New York City and worked to accumulate photographs of newsworthy events which could then be distributed to newspapers around the world. Among the images is a photograph of 13-year-old suffragette Fay Hubbard proudly showing a young boy propaganda whilst wearing a bag labelled American Suffragette. Another picture shows two Titanic orphans - Michel, four, and Edmond Navratil, two. Their father assumed the name Louis Hoffman to board the ship and died when RMS Titanic sunk in April 1912. Royalty also graced the pictures, with
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The first page of George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” in pencil. Music Division.
At some point during the hectic composition of “Rhapsody in Blue,” one of George Gershwin’s masterpieces of 20th-century American music, the maestro got impatient with the process. The piece, which was to debut in just a few short weeks, would eventually run to 22,000 notes over 500 measures, after all.
In Gershwin’s handwritten score of “Rhapsody,” he sketched out the notation for his piano solo but left a small section blank in the second draft, as by then copyists were helping notate each change that he was making as the piece came together. That solo section stayed blank in the third and final score arranged by Ferde Grofé, with only a note to conductor Paul Whiteman to “wait for nod” when Gershwin launched into his solo.