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[Mrs. A.R. Hancock, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left] – Vintage Photo Print

[Mrs. A.R. Hancock, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left], [between 1866 and 1890] — historic photograph
[Mrs. A.R. Hancock, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left], [between 1866 and 1890]. 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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Step back in time with [Mrs. A.R. Hancock, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left], a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Mrs. A.R. Hancock, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left]

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A head-and-shoulders study of Mrs. A. R. Hancock, turned to the left, survives from the decades between 1866 and 1890, when the cabinet card had become the standard format for studio portraits. Cabinet cards were stiff mounted prints, roughly 4 by 6 and a half inches on card, and sitters of this period were often posed against painted backdrops with a draped table or chair at the edge of the frame. The record identifies only the sitter's married name, so little more can be said of her life with certainty. Her portrait still shows how middle-class American families used the photographic studio to preserve a likeness for the parlor or family album.

Created / published[between 1866 and 1890]
GenrePortrait photographs 1860-1890.Photographic prints 1860-1890.Cabinet photographs 1860-1890.
SubjectsHancock, A. R.,--Mrs.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,019 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-166740

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