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[John Marshall Harlan, 1899-, half-length portrait, seated, facing right] – Vintage Wall Art

[John Marshall Harlan, 1899-, half-length portrait, seated, facing right] — historic photograph
[John Marshall Harlan, 1899-, half-length portrait, seated, facing right]. 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 [John Marshall Harlan, 1899-, half-length portrait, seated, facing right]. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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[John Marshall Harlan, 1899-, half-length portrait, seated, facing right]

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John Marshall Harlan served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court from 1877 until 1911, and this half-length portrait shows him seated and turned to the right, a pose that suggests the formal sittings common to judges and public men of his era. The caption card records no date, so the exact year of the sitting is uncertain, though the title's "1899-" points to a photograph taken around the turn of the century. Harlan is remembered for his lone dissent in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), which argued that the Constitution is color-blind, a view that later gained wide acceptance.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes[no date recorded on caption card]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,500 × 1,887 px · prints to 5 × 6 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-125596

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