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[Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1794-1877, three-quarter length portrait, standing, facing right] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1794-1877, three-quarter length portrait, standing, facing right] — antique engraving
[Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1794-1877, three-quarter length portrait, standing, facing right]. Antique engraving 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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Few images capture their era like this antique engraving of [Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1794-1877, three-quarter length portrait, standing, facing right]. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1794-1877, three-quarter length portrait, standing, facing right]

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Cornelius Vanderbilt, the shipping and railroad magnate who built one of the largest fortunes in nineteenth-century America, appears here in a three-quarter length pose, standing and turned toward the right. As an engraving, the image would have been reproduced for wide circulation in its era, when printed likenesses of prominent businessmen appeared in newspapers, books and parlor prints. The caption card records no date, so the exact year of production is uncertain, but Vanderbilt's career spanned from steamboats on New York waters in the 1810s to the New York Central railroad in the 1860s and 1870s, and portraits of him were common throughout that period.

Medium1 print : engraving.
Notes[no date recorded on caption card]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,396 × 1,676 px · prints to 5 × 6 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-124384

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