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[Amelie Rives, half-length portrait, seated at piano, right profile] – Historic Photograph Print

[Amelie Rives, half-length portrait, seated at piano, right profile] — historic photograph
[Amelie Rives, half-length portrait, seated at piano, right profile]. 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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This rare historic photograph captures [Amelie Rives, half-length portrait, seated at piano, right profile] in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Seated at a piano and turned in right profile, the sitter is shown in a quiet, half-length pose that keeps attention on her face and the line of her shoulders. The portrait shows Amelie Rives, the Virginia-born novelist who gained fame in the late 1880s with fiction that drew both admiration and sharp criticism for its frank treatment of love and marriage. Dated 1893, the image reflects a period when photographs of writers and society figures circulated widely, letting a growing public see the faces behind the books they were reading.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes[1893]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,079 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-123402

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