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[Dorothy Catherine Draper, half-length portrait, facing front] – Vintage Photo Print

[Dorothy Catherine Draper, half-length portrait, facing front] — historic photograph
[Dorothy Catherine Draper, half-length portrait, facing front]. 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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A window into the past: [Dorothy Catherine Draper, half-length portrait, facing front], preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Dorothy Catherine Draper, half-length portrait, facing front]

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The caption card identifies this half-length portrait, turned toward the viewer, as Dorothy Catherine Draper, a member of the family of chemist John William Draper (1811-1882). The card credits him as the maker of this collotype, a gelatin-based photomechanical process that reproduces the soft, continuous tones of a photograph. No date is recorded, and the attribution comes from older catalog data, so it is worth reading with some caution. Even so, the image offers a glimpse of the family portraiture that Draper pursued during the early years of photography.

Medium1 photographic print : collotype.
Notes[no date recorded on caption card]
SubjectsArtotype (collotype) by Prof. John William Draper, 1811-1882. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf; P.I.; Photog.-- Hist.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan959 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-127399

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