Gen. Powell Clayton – Historic Print
(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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Gen. Powell Clayton comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Gen. Powell Clayton
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Powell Clayton is the subject of this glass negative, one of the portraits the Bain News Service made of public figures for its wire photos. Clayton was a Union cavalry officer who rose to brigadier general, then served as Arkansas's first Republican governor during Reconstruction, from 1868 to 1871, and later as a U.S. senator and as ambassador to Mexico. The record gives no date for the exposure, and the name comes from Bain caption data that has not been independently verified, so the portrait's exact occasion is unknown. Its place in the Bain collection, however, shows how news agencies built files of officials for the newspapers of the early twentieth century.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch three loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,803 × 4,267 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-11720 |
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