[Mary Kean, half-length portrait, seated, facing front with head tilted to the right] / Gerhard Sisters, St. Louis. – Historic Photo Reproduction
![[Mary Kean, half-length portrait, seated, facing front with head tilted to the right] / Gerhard Sisters, St. Louis., c1915 April 23. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/79/793d4eeb28fc-L.webp)
(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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This historic photograph of [Mary Kean, half-length portrait, seated, facing front with head tilted to the right] / Gerhard Sisters, St. Louis. brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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[Mary Kean, half-length portrait, seated, facing front with head tilted to the right] / Gerhard Sisters, St. Louis.
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A seated half-length portrait of Mary Kean, her head tilted toward her right shoulder, gives this print a quiet, intimate pose. It was made by Gerhard Sisters, a St. Louis studio, around 1915, and the record notes that it was registered with the U.S. Copyright Office, which required a print for deposit. Studio portraits of the 1910s often used posed chairs and plain backdrops, so the viewer's attention falls on the sitter's expression and the angle of the head. The print also offers a glimpse of commercial portrait work in St. Louis during the decade before the First World War.
| Created / published | c1915 April 23. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1910-1920.Photographic prints 1910-1920. |
| Notes | J202216 U.S. Copyright Office. Title from item. Copyright by Gerhard Sisters, St. Louis. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,269 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-209377 |
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