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[Booker T. Washington, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing left, writing] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[Booker T. Washington, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing left, writing], c1906. — historic photograph
[Booker T. Washington, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing left, writing], c1906.. 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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Shown seated and turned to the left, with pen in hand as if mid-sentence, Booker T. Washington appears in this c1906 portrait at the height of his national influence. The print is an unmounted stereograph, one of a pair of nearly identical photographs meant to be viewed through a stereoscope, a format that was widely popular in the early 1900s. By then Washington was president of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, a school he had led since 1881, and his 1901 memoir, *Up from Slavery*, had made him one of the most recognized Black Americans of his day. Portraits like this one circulated widely, shaping how the public saw him.

Created / publishedc1906.
Medium1 photographic print : stereograph unmounted.
GenrePortrait photographs 1900-1910.Photographic prints 1900-1910.Stereographs 1900-1910.
NotesH73547 U.S. Copyright Office.
SubjectsWashington, Booker T.,--1856-1915.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,258 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-181352

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