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[Boston Corbett, half-length portrait, seated] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[Boston Corbett, half-length portrait, seated] — historic photograph
[Boston Corbett, half-length portrait, seated]. Historic photograph from the Boston 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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Step back in time with [Boston Corbett, half-length portrait, seated], a historic photograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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[Boston Corbett, half-length portrait, seated]

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Boston Corbett is an unlikely subject for a portrait in a city gallery, but his name ties him to the city. Before the Civil War he worked as a hatter in Boston, and he later became known nationwide as the Union cavalry sergeant who shot John Wilkes Booth in a Virginia tobacco barn in April 1865. The caption card gives no date, so the sitting itself is hard to place. Still, the seated, half-length pose suggests a studio portrait made for a man who had become a public figure after the war.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes[no date recorded on caption card]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,124 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-118037

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