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[James G. Blaine, half-length portrait, right hand to chin, seated, facing right] – Antique Photo Print

[James G. Blaine, half-length portrait, right hand to chin, seated, facing right], c1892 June 8. — historic photograph
[James G. Blaine, half-length portrait, right hand to chin, seated, facing right], c1892 June 8.. 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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Seated and turned to the right, with his hand raised to his chin, James G. Blaine appears in this half-length portrait as a thoughtful statesman rather than a stiff official. Blaine had served as Speaker of the House and as Secretary of State, and he was the Republican nominee for president in 1884, losing narrowly to Grover Cleveland. The print carries the imprint of Napoleon Sarony, the New York studio photographer who made many portraits of prominent figures of the period. Its copyright notation points to a registration around June 1892, roughly a year before Blaine died in 1893.

Created / publishedc1892 June 8.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePortrait photographs 1890-1900.Photographic prints 1890-1900.
NotesX22916 U.S. Copyright office. No. 5. Photo by N. Sarony, N.Y.
SubjectsBlaine, James Gillespie,--1830-1893.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan885 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-111652

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