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Pilar Morin as clown/mime: head and shoulders, facing front; crying – Historic Print

Pilar Morin as clown/mime: head and shoulders, facing front; crying, c1895. — historic photograph
Pilar Morin as clown/mime: head and shoulders, facing front; crying, 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Pilar Morin as clown/mime: head and shoulders, facing front; crying. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Pilar Morin as clown/mime: head and shoulders, facing front; crying

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In this portrait, Pilar Morin appears in clown or mime costume, looking straight at the camera with a tearful expression, a deliberate pose that suits a performer who worked in silent stage pantomime. Photographs like this were often sold as cabinet cards and studio prints, letting audiences keep a likeness of performers they had seen on stage. The print carries a copyright credit to the photographer B.J. Falk, and the surrounding caption details date it to about 1895. Exaggerated facial expressions such as weeping were a staple of pantomime, so the picture captures the performance style of its time.

Created / publishedc1895.
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesPhotoprint copyrighted by B.J. Falk. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog. I.; BI; Mimes; Clowns; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,048 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-145043

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