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[James Queen, half-length portrait, seated, facing right] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[James Queen, half-length portrait, seated, facing right], [between 1879 and 1886] — historic photograph
[James Queen, half-length portrait, seated, facing right], [between 1879 and 1886]. Historic photograph from the Family Life 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [James Queen, half-length portrait, seated, facing right]. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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[James Queen, half-length portrait, seated, facing right]

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A half-length portrait of James Fuller Queen, who lived from about 1820 or 1821 to 1886, shows him seated and turned to the right. The card's printed mount names the studio of A. Newman at 228 North Ninth Street in Philadelphia, which places the sitting in that city. Queen was active in Philadelphia's photographic trade, so the portrait reflects a community where photography was both a business and a personal tradition. Cabinet cards like this one became the standard format for studio portraits in the 1880s, larger and more durable than the earlier carte de visite, and they were often kept in family albums or displayed on parlor tables.

Created / published[between 1879 and 1886]
Medium1 photographic print on cabinet card mount : albumen.
GenrePortrait photographs 1870-1890.Cabinet photographs 1870-1890.Albumen prints 1870-1890.
NotesMarian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress). Printed on mount: A. Newman, 228 N. Ninth St. Phila. Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 1997:105
SubjectsQueen, James Fuller,--1820 or 21-1886.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,826 × 4,715 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-220220

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