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[John Dewey, 1859-1952, bust portrait, facing left] – Vintage Photo Print

[John Dewey, 1859-1952, bust portrait, facing left] — historic photograph
[John Dewey, 1859-1952, bust portrait, facing left]. 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [John Dewey, 1859-1952, bust portrait, facing left]. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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[John Dewey, 1859-1952, bust portrait, facing left]

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John Dewey, the philosopher and educational reformer, appears here in a bust-length portrait turned to his left, a pose that keeps his face in clear profile against a plain ground. The caption card gives no date, so the sitting is best placed by his long career rather than by the record itself. Dewey (1859-1952) taught at the University of Chicago and Columbia University and became one of the most influential voices in American thought on schooling and democracy. His work on learning by doing shaped progressive education, and it is worth noticing how a portrait of a man so tied to ideas still emphasizes the plain, measured dignity of the scholar.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes[no date recorded on caption card]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,123 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-127844

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