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[John Landis Mason, full-length portrait, seated, facing right, alongside stack of Mason jars] – Historic Photograph Print

[John Landis Mason, full-length portrait, seated, facing right, alongside stack of Mason jars] — historic photograph
[John Landis Mason, full-length portrait, seated, facing right, alongside stack of Mason jars]. Historic photograph from the Freemasons 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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[John Landis Mason, full-length portrait, seated, facing right, alongside stack of Mason jars] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[John Landis Mason, full-length portrait, seated, facing right, alongside stack of Mason jars]

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The row of glass jars beside this seated figure identifies the subject as John Landis Mason, the inventor who patented a screw-top glass jar with a threaded neck in 1858. That design made home canning far more practical, and the Mason jar went on to become one of the most familiar food containers in American kitchens. Mason died in 1902, so a photograph dated around 1939 was made decades after his death, and the record does not explain how it came to show him. The surname matches that of the Masonic fraternity, but the jar and the fraternity have no known connection.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notesc1939.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,220 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-135898

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