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[Abraham de la Peña, half-length portrait, facing front] – Historic Photograph Print

[Abraham de la Peña, half-length portrait, facing front], [between 1850 and 1880] — historic photograph
[Abraham de la Peña, half-length portrait, facing front], [between 1850 and 1880]. 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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Abraham de la Peña appears in a half-length, front-facing pose, the standard format of the small card portraits that circulated widely in the 1860s. The Library's record links him to military service during the European intervention in Mexico, 1861 to 1867, when French forces and Mexican conservatives backed Archduke Maximilian of Austria as emperor. The card was kept in an album of likenesses tied to Maximilian's reign, which shows how such portraits served as both personal keepsakes and political records. Its albumen print on a card mount was an inexpensive, widely used format of the period.

Created / published[between 1850 and 1880]
Medium1 photographic print on carte de visite mount : albumen.
GenreCartes de visite 1850-1880.Portrait photographs 1850-1880.Albumen prints 1850-1880.
NotesTitle devised by Library staff. In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 11, lower right.
SubjectsPeña, Abraham de la--Military service. Mexico--History--European intervention, 1861-1867.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,271 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-207115

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