Marcus Perrin Knowlton, 1839-1918 – Antique Wall Art
(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: Marcus Perrin Knowlton, 1839-1918, 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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Marcus Perrin Knowlton, 1839-1918
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Marcus Perrin Knowlton (1839-1918) is the subject of this portrait, a photoprint made around 1904 and copyrighted by J.E. Purdy of Boston. The record is thin: it names the sitter and the photographer's firm but gives no details of setting or pose, and the caption card data is unverified. Knowlton's dates place his adult life across the Civil War era and into the early twentieth century, a span when studio portraits like this one were produced in large numbers for personal and family use. Photoprints from this period were often made from a negative and printed in quantity, so the image reflects both a sitter's own choice of portrait and the commercial studio practice of the time.
| Created / published | c1904. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | Photoprint copyrighted by J.E. Purdy, Boston. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog. I.; BI; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,007 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-172399 |
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