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[James Matlack Scovell, 1833-, bust portrait, facing right] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[James Matlack Scovell, 1833-, bust portrait, facing right] — historic photograph
[James Matlack Scovell, 1833-, bust portrait, facing right]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive 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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A window into the past: [James Matlack Scovell, 1833-, bust portrait, facing right], preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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[James Matlack Scovell, 1833-, bust portrait, facing right]

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This bust portrait shows James Matlack Scovell, born in 1833, turned to face right. The caption card gives no date, so the sitting itself cannot be placed precisely, but the format of a head-and-shoulders photographic portrait points to the mid-to-late nineteenth century, when studio portraits of this kind became a common way for ordinary people to record their likenesses. Cropped close to the shoulders and set in profile, the pose was a standard convention of the period, and the sitter's expression and dress offer the clearest clues to when and where the picture was made.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes[no date recorded on caption card]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,238 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-127796

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