Background
Bain, George Grantham was born on January 7, 1865 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of George and Clara (Mather) Bain.
Bain, George Grantham was born on January 7, 1865 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of George and Clara (Mather) Bain.
Bachelor of Arts, Saint Louis University, 1883, Master of Arts, 1890, unmarried. News manager United Press at Washington. Special correspondent with headquarters in Washington and then New New York
Founded Bain News Service, New York, 1907.
Organized 1st news photograph service in America. Inventor automatic photo-printer.
He was known as "the father of foreign photographic news". His family moved from Chicago to Saint Louis, Missouri. After graduation he became a reporter at the Saint Louis Globe-Democrat.
The following year he moved to the Saint Louis Post-Dispatch where he became the Washington, District of Columbia correspondent.
He worked for United Press before he started the Bain News Service in 1898. He died on April 20, 1944 in Manhattan.
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 Some of his most important images were marked with a copyright notice to prevent unauthorized distribution.
Clubs: The Players, Aeronautical of America (a founder), Dutch Treat (governor).