[Santiago Polanco-Abreu, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left] / Chase Ltd., photo, Washington. – Vintage Photo Print
![[Santiago Polanco-Abreu, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left] / Chase Ltd., photo, Washington., 1966 — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/82/82af2142401c-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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A window into the past: [Santiago Polanco-Abreu, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left] / Chase Ltd., photo, Washington., preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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[Santiago Polanco-Abreu, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left] / Chase Ltd., photo, Washington.
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Santiago Polanco-Abreu, who lived from 1920 to 1988, sits for this 1966 head-and-shoulders studio portrait, turned slightly to the left against a plain backdrop. The photograph was made by Chase Ltd., a Washington studio, and it belongs to the Library of Congress's Congressional Portrait Collection, a body of formal portraits of people connected with the federal legislature. Portraits from that period were usually made to a standard format, so the sitter's posture, expression, and framing tell us about the conventions of official portraiture in the 1960s as much as about the man himself.
| Created / published | 1966 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1960-1970.Photographic prints 1960-1970. |
| Notes | Forms part of: Congressional Portrait Collection (Library of Congress). |
| Subjects | Polanco-Abreu, Santiago,--1920-1988. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,282 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-188491 |
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