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Sepia portrait of a man in suit and bow tie – Vintage Wall Art

Sepia portrait of a man in suit and bow tie — historic image
Sepia portrait of a man in suit and bow tie. Historic image from the Lincoln Home National Historic Site collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: Sepia portrait of a man in suit and bow tie, preserved in this historic image. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.

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Sepia portrait of a man in suit and bow tie

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A man in a dark suit and bow tie sits for this sepia portrait, posed in the formal manner common to studio photographs of its period. The record does not name the sitter, so it is best read as a period portrait rather than a documented picture connected to the house. The Lincoln Home in Springfield, Illinois, where Abraham Lincoln lived with his family from 1844 until he left for Washington in 1861, is now preserved by the National Park Service, and portraits like this one show how local residents dressed and sat for their pictures in the same era. Sepia toning, applied to many photographs into the early twentieth century, gives the figure its warm, aged tone.

Original scan1,150 × 1,383 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceL-P-19

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