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[William Brimage Bate, 1826-1905, bust portrait] – Historic Photograph Print

[William Brimage Bate, 1826-1905, bust portrait] — historic photograph
[William Brimage Bate, 1826-1905, bust portrait]. 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 [William Brimage Bate, 1826-1905, bust portrait] in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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[William Brimage Bate, 1826-1905, bust portrait]

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William Brimage Bate was a Tennessee lawyer, Confederate general, and later United States senator, and this bust portrait shows him in his later years, after the Civil War had ended his military career and reshaped Southern public life. The photograph is dated only to the 1900s (the record gives c190- for the decade), so it likely reflects the Gilded Age and early twentieth-century custom of formal studio portraits for statesmen and veterans. Bate served in the Senate from 1887 until his death in 1905, a period when former Confederates were returning to national office and when memory of the war was being shaped in veterans' organizations and public monuments.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes[c190-]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,043 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-119685

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