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[Portrait of a boy in a round hat] / A.P. – Historic Photograph Print

[Portrait of a boy in a round hat] / A.P., [ca. 1900] — historic photograph
[Portrait of a boy in a round hat] / A.P., [ca. 1900]. 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [Portrait of a boy in a round hat] / A.P.. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[Portrait of a boy in a round hat] / A.P.

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The sitter here wears a round hat, and the print is signed only "A.P.," so the maker is recorded by initials alone. Platinum prints like this one were prized around 1900 for their soft, matte tones and fine gradations, which suited the artistic portraiture that photographers were pursuing at the time. The print belonged to Frances Benjamin Johnston, a photographer and collector who assembled a large group of artistic photographs, and it was given to the Library of Congress in 1948. It also appeared in the 2001 exhibition catalog *Ambassadors of Progress*, which surveyed American photography of the period.

Created / published[ca. 1900]
Medium1 photographic print : platinum ; 16.8 x 11.5 cm. mounted on thick dark gray mat, 27.8 x 20.3 cm., with black intermediate mount.
GenrePortrait photographs 1900.Platinum prints 1900.
NotesTitle devised. Signed on print: A.P. DLC FBJ label no. 70. DLC Forms part of: Artistic photographs collected by Frances Benjamin Johnston in the Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection. DLC Gift; Frances Benjamin Johnston; 1948. DLC Published in: Ambassadors of progress / edited by Bronwyn A.E. Griffith ... France : Musée d'Art Américain Giverny ... 2001, p. 163. Exhibited: Ambassadors of progress, 2001-2003. DLC
SubjectsBoys--Clothing & dress--1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,059 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-141190

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