Jonathan Scott Hartley, 1845-1912 – Antique Print
(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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This rare historic print captures Jonathan Scott Hartley, 1845-1912 in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Jonathan Scott Hartley, 1845-1912
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Rather than a camera original, this is a halftone reproduction of a portrait of Jonathan Scott Hartley (1845-1912), printed as an illustration on page 212 of the 1953 *National Cyclopedia of American Biography*. That multivolume reference series, issued by James T. White & Company, paired short biographical sketches with portraits to put a face to each name. The halftone process, which breaks a photograph into a pattern of tiny dots so it can be printed in ink, was the standard way to reproduce photographs in books and periodicals from the 1880s onward, so the image shows as much about printing practice as about its subject. The record flags its data as unverified, so the sitter's identity and the original photograph's date are worth checking against the cyclopedia itself.
| Created / published | 1953 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : halftone. |
| Notes | Illus. in: National Cyclopedia of American Biography, 1953, p. 212. Copied by permission of the James T. White Co. (N.Y.) for use in LC exhibit only. No reference copy. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,098 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-106633 |
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