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[O.H. Hart, full-length portrait, standing, left profile, in uniform, alongside horse] – Antique Photo Print

[O.H. Hart, full-length portrait, standing, left profile, in uniform, alongside horse], [1864 Feb.] — historic photograph
[O.H. Hart, full-length portrait, standing, left profile, in uniform, alongside horse], [1864 Feb.]. 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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[O.H. Hart, full-length portrait, standing, left profile, in uniform, alongside horse] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Shown in left profile, standing beside a horse in full uniform, this subject was photographed at a time when most wartime portraits were tighter head-and-shoulders studies. The record dates the image to February 1864, placing it in the middle of the war, and it is catalogued in the Library of Congress's Civil War Photograph Collection. Portraits that included a horse were popular because they suggested mounted service and a soldier's pride in his equipment, and a good horse was a valued possession. The uniform and the posed setting are worth studying for what they reveal about how men of the period chose to be remembered.

Created / published[1864 Feb.]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePortrait photographs 1860-1870.Photographic prints 1860-1910.
NotesCivil War Photograph Collection. No. 139.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,088 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-163430

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