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[Alexander Dallas Bache, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left] – Vintage Photo Print

[Alexander Dallas Bache, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left], [between 1860 and 1867] — historic photograph
[Alexander Dallas Bache, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left], [between 1860 and 1867]. Historic photograph from the Dallas 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 [Alexander Dallas Bache, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left], a historic photograph rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[Alexander Dallas Bache, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left]

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Alexander Dallas Bache is shown in this head-and-shoulders portrait, turned slightly to the left, in a photograph made sometime between 1860 and 1867. Bache, a great-grandson of Benjamin Franklin, served as superintendent of the U.S. Coast Survey from 1843 until his death in 1867, and he shaped it into a center for precise scientific measurement. The portrait dates from the last years of his life, when he was also a leading figure in American science and in the scientific community of Washington. The record does not name the photographer, but the sitting falls within the decades when portrait photography became common among public officials and scientists.

Created / published[between 1860 and 1867]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePortrait photographs 1860-1870.Photographic prints 1860-1870.
SubjectsBache, A. D. (Alexander Dallas),--1806-1867.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,043 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-113767

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