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American George Grantham Bain was born in Chicago during 1865. His parents were George Bain and Clara Mather. He was raised in St. Louis. He entered St. Louis University and graduated with a law degree (1890). He working for United Press. With an interest in photography, he took many wonderfulmperiod photographs. He is remembered today not only for these photographs, but for founding the first news photography service--Bain News Service (1898). He took and acquired a large archive of photographs for his news photo service. The archive included both portraits and human interest images as well as images of worldwide news events. His collection as might be guessed, was centered largely on New York City where Bain lived. The Bain News Service gradually accumulated a substantial archive covering people and events all over the world. The Bain collection expanded beyonf New York City by obtaining photographs from its photo service subscribers as part of their payment to Bain and his company. There are important images from the early-20th century, especially World War I and the Mexican Revolution. The collection is today part of the Library of Congress archive.
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