File:Newlyweds Ginevra King Mitchell and William H. Mitchell in their passport photos, 1918 - Bill Mitchell Crop.jpg
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DescriptionNewlyweds Ginevra King Mitchell and William H. Mitchell in their passport photos, 1918 - Bill Mitchell Crop.jpg |
English: A cropped and digitally retouched image of a 1918 passport photograph of polo player and sportsman William "Bill" Mitchell. He inspired the character of Tom Buchanan in F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel The Great Gatsby. Mitchell's wife, Ginevra King, inspired the character of Daisy Buchanan in the same novel. Bill Mitchell was the son of banker John J. Mitchell, president of the Illinois Trust & Savings Bank and a close personal friend of Ginevra's father Charles Garfield King with whom he shared offices in the same building in downtown Chicago. Ginevra's father orchestrated the union between his daughter and Mitchell as "an arranged marriage" between two elite Chicago families. According to scholars, Ginevra "made the same choice Daisy Buchanan did, accepting the safe haven of money rather than waiting for a truer love to come along." "To say I am the happiest girl on earth would be expressing it mildly", King wrote perfunctorily in her letter to Fitzgerald, "I wish you knew Bill so that you could know how very lucky I am". Bill Mitchell became the director of Texaco, one of the largest and most successful oil companies of the era. Bill's brother, banker Jack Mitchell, co-founded United Airlines and married the only daughter of magnate J. Ogden Armour, the second-richest man in the United States after John D. Rockefeller. |
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This is a retouched picture, which means that it has been digitally altered from its original version. Modifications: This cropped image has been digitally retouched and restored via Adobe Photoshop using a variety of methods: Dust and scratches were removed; shadows were lightened; minor blemishes were removed; the brightness, tone, and contrast were improved, as well as other changes. For the original unaltered source image, see Passport document for newlyweds Ginevra King and her husband William H. Mitchell, 1918.jpg.
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Horizontal resolution | 96 dpi |
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Software used | Adobe Photoshop 23.5 (Windows) |
File change date and time | 14:59, 27 November 2022 |
Color space | Uncalibrated |
Date and time of digitizing | 16:56, 13 September 2021 |
Date metadata was last modified | 08:59, 27 November 2022 |
Unique ID of original document | xmp.did:14e2d03b-6fd4-6046-bf69-4b2288fa013b |