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[Young woman in period dress with headband] / Emily Mew. – Antique Print

[Young woman in period dress with headband] / Emily Mew., [ca.1900] — historic photograph
[Young woman in period dress with headband] / Emily Mew., [ca.1900]. 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 [Young woman in period dress with headband] / Emily Mew.. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Young woman in period dress with headband] / Emily Mew.

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Emily Mew, a Washington, D.C. photographer, made this platinum print, which is signed on its Rembrandt-style mount and dates to about 1900. Platinum printing was prized by art photographers of the period for its soft, subtle tones and fine detail, and the medium suited portraits like this one. The print belonged to Frances Benjamin Johnston, a leading Washington photographer who assembled a collection of artistic photographs by her contemporaries. Johnston gave the collection to the Library of Congress in 1948, and the print was later featured in the 2001 exhibition catalog *Ambassadors of Progress*.

Created / published[ca.1900]
Medium1 photographic print : platinum ; 22 x 17 cm. on 31 x 26 cm. Rembrandt mount.
GenrePlatinum prints 1900.Portrait photographs 1900.
NotesTitle devised by staff. Signed on mount. DLC FBJ label no. 62. DLC On verso of mount: Emily Mew, Washington, D.C. DLC Forms part of: Artistic photographs collected by Frances Benjamin Johnston in the Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection. DLC Gift; Frances Benjamin Johnston; 1948. DLC Published in: Ambassadors of progress / edited by Bronwyn A.E. Griffith ... France : Musée d'Art Américain Giverny ... 2001, p. 161. Exhibited: Ambassadors of progress, 2001-2003. DLC
SubjectsWomen--1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,880 × 6,066 px · prints to 16 × 20 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-225620

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