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[Winfield Scott Hancock, 1824-1886, half length portrait, seated, facing left; in uniform] – Vintage Photo Print

[Winfield Scott Hancock, 1824-1886, half length portrait, seated, facing left; in uniform] — historic photograph
[Winfield Scott Hancock, 1824-1886, half length portrait, seated, facing left; in uniform]. 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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[Winfield Scott Hancock, 1824-1886, half length portrait, seated, facing left; in uniform]

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Winfield Scott Hancock sits in this half-length portrait in uniform, turned toward the left, a pose that gave the Union general a steady, unhurried presence. Hancock earned the nickname "Hancock the Superb" for his leadership at Gettysburg, where his troops held the center of the Union line on the battle's third day. He later ran for president as the Democratic nominee in 1880 and lost narrowly to James A. Garfield. The caption card does not record a date, but the uniform and the composition place the picture in the decades after the Civil War, when officers' portraits were widely circulated as cartes de visite and studio prints.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes[no date recorded on caption card]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,240 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-138252

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