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[O-ko-a-po-bi, half-length portrait, seated, facing right] / E.A. Burbank [?]eams Ca[...]. – Historic Photo Reproduction

[O-ko-a-po-bi, half-length portrait, seated, facing right] / E.A. Burbank [?]eams Ca[...]., c1900. — historic print
[O-ko-a-po-bi, half-length portrait, seated, facing right] / E.A. Burbank [?]eams Ca[...]., c1900.. Historic print from the Native Americans collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This rare historic print captures [O-ko-a-po-bi, half-length portrait, seated, facing right] / E.A. Burbank [?]eams Ca[...]. in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[O-ko-a-po-bi, half-length portrait, seated, facing right] / E.A. Burbank [?]eams Ca[...].

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Identified in the title as O-ko-a-po-bi, this half-length portrait shows a Hopi sitter seated and turned toward the right, with the clothing and dress that the catalog headings single out. It is a color halftone reproduction of a painting by E.A. Burbank of Chicago, and the copyright in his name reflects how widely such paintings were reproduced in print around 1900. Portraits of Native American sitters were popular then, and reproductions like this carried a painter's work to audiences far beyond his studio. Worth noticing is how the halftone process built up the colors of the original painting from small printed dots.

Created / publishedc1900.
Medium1 photomechanical print : halftone, color.
GenrePortrait paintings Reproductions 1900.Halftone photomechanical prints Color 1900.
NotesD4375 U.S. Copyright Office. Reproduction of painting by E.A. Burbank. Copyright by E.A. Burbank, Chicago.
SubjectsO-ko-a-po-bi. Indians of North America--Clothing & dress--1900. Hopi Indians--Clothing & dress--1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,143 × 1,461 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-219407

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