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Horace Greeley, 1811-1872 – Antique Wall Art

Horace Greeley, 1811-1872, [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph
Horace Greeley, 1811-1872, [no date recorded on caption card]. 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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A window into the past: Horace Greeley, 1811-1872, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Horace Greeley, 1811-1872

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Horace Greeley, the newspaper editor who founded the New-York Tribune and later ran for president as the Liberal Republican candidate in 1872, is the subject of this portrait. Greeley was among the most widely read editors of the nineteenth century, known for his antislavery stance and his influential editorials, and he died in November 1872, shortly after his electoral defeat. The record gives no date or photographer, so the exact year of the sitting is unknown, but the dates on the caption card place his life within the decades when photographic portraits of public figures were increasingly common.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesThis record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: BI; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,164 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-147920

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