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[Edward Ward Carmack, 1858-1908, three-quarters length, seated, facing left] – Vintage Wall Art

[Edward Ward Carmack, 1858-1908, three-quarters length, seated, facing left], c1902. — historic photograph
[Edward Ward Carmack, 1858-1908, three-quarters length, seated, facing left], c1902.. 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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[Edward Ward Carmack, 1858-1908, three-quarters length, seated, facing left]

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Carmack is shown seated in three-quarter length, turned to the left, in a studio portrait credited to J.E. Purdy and dated around 1902. By then he was known across Tennessee as a newspaper editor and Democratic politician who campaigned against the convict lease system and for prohibition. He later served briefly in the U.S. Senate, and he was shot and killed on a Nashville street in 1908 during a bitter political feud. The date and attribution come from an old caption card and have not been independently verified, so the portrait is best read as a record of how he presented himself at the height of his public career.

Created / publishedc1902.
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesPhoto copyrighted by J.E. Purdy, no. 4. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog. I.; BI; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,246 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-139540

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