[Andrew Carnegie, half-length portrait, facing front] / photo by Davis & Sanford. – Historic Photograph Print
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(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 [Andrew Carnegie, half-length portrait, facing front] / photo by Davis & Sanford. in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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[Andrew Carnegie, half-length portrait, facing front] / photo by Davis & Sanford.
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Andrew Carnegie looks straight into the lens in this half-length portrait, with his face and shoulders filling the frame. Born in Scotland in 1835, he rose from telegraph messenger to lead the American steel industry, then sold his company in 1901 and gave away much of his fortune, especially to public libraries. The studio Davis & Sanford made the photograph, and the 1937 date in its record most likely marks cataloguing rather than the sitting. Widely copied portraits like this helped fix the image of the self-made industrialist turned philanthropist.
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
|---|---|
| Notes | 1937 |
| Subjects | Carnegie, Andrew,--1835-1919. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,308 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-203379 |
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