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[James Whitcomb Riley, bust portrait, facing left] – Historic Photograph Print

[James Whitcomb Riley, bust portrait, facing left], c1898. — historic photograph
[James Whitcomb Riley, bust portrait, facing left], c1898.. 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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[James Whitcomb Riley, bust portrait, facing left]

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This bust portrait shows James Whitcomb Riley, the Indiana poet, turned to the left in a studio pose. Riley was among the most widely read American poets of the late 1800s, known for dialect verse such as "Little Orphant Annie" and "The Old Swimmin'-Hole," and he also toured giving public recitals of his work. The photograph's copyright notice credits Pach, a New York studio that made many portraits of public figures in this period. The date, c1898, comes from an older caption card and has not been independently verified.

Created / publishedc1898.
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesPhoto copyrighted byPach. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,084 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-124540

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