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[Louis E. McComas, bust portrait, facing left] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[Louis E. McComas, bust portrait, facing left] — historic print
[Louis E. McComas, bust portrait, facing left]. Historic print 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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This bust portrait shows Louis E. McComas, a Republican from Maryland who was serving in the U.S. House of Representatives around the time this halftone was made, in about 1904. He was turned slightly to the left, a common pose for formal portraits of the period. The picture is a photomechanical halftone, a process that broke a photograph into tiny dots so it could be printed in newspapers and magazines. Such reproductions spread the faces of officeholders to readers who would never see them in person, so this print reflects how political figures were presented to the public in the early 1900s.

Medium1 photomechanical print : halftone.
Notesc1904.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,164 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-120894

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