Oliver Wendell Holmes portrait card with typed label – Vintage Photo Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with Oliver Wendell Holmes portrait card with typed label, a historic image rich in period detail. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
Order it framed and ready to hang, or unframed to match a frame you already love. A fine choice for anyone who loves history, and a gift that gets noticed. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past, founded in 2001, has served tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Oliver Wendell Holmes portrait card with typed label
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., the Boston physician and poet who taught at Harvard and wrote *The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table*, sits for this small portrait card, which carries a typed label naming him. Cards like this were produced and sold in quantity during his lifetime, when pictures of well-known men circulated as keepsakes and were often sorted into library and archival collections. The typed identification is worth noticing, because it suggests the card was meant to be identified and filed by someone other than the sitter, not just admired on a parlor table.
| Original scan | 3,850 × 5,639 px · prints to 13 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | tif15509_BookplateofOliverWendellHolmes |
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