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[Francis Schlatter, faith healer, half-length portrait, facing front] – Historic Photograph Print

[Francis Schlatter, faith healer, half-length portrait, facing front], c1895. — historic photograph
[Francis Schlatter, faith healer, half-length portrait, facing front], c1895.. 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: [Francis Schlatter, faith healer, 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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[Francis Schlatter, faith healer, half-length portrait, facing front]

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This half-length portrait shows Francis Schlatter facing the camera, and the studio credit to W.A. White of Raton, New Mexico, places the image in the Southwest during the years Schlatter was drawing crowds there. In 1895 the German-born healer traveled through the region, where he claimed to cure the sick by touch and refused payment for his work. Photographers like White sold such portraits to followers and curious onlookers, so the picture reflects how a traveling healer's reputation was spread through images as well as word of mouth.

Created / publishedc1895.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePortrait photographs 1890-1900.Photographic prints 1890-1900.
Notes63890aa U.S. Copyright Office. No. 15. Copyright by W.A. White, Raton, New Mexico.
SubjectsSchlatter, Francis,--1856-1896? Healers--1890-1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,301 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-182130

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