Horace Capron – Vintage Wall Art
![Horace Capron, [no date recorded on caption card] — antique engraving](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/83/83e9ebafd29e-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.)
Description
This antique engraving of Horace Capron 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.
Framed, it is ready for the wall; unframed, it is ready for the frame you choose. Perfect for a home, office, library or classroom wall, and a gift with a story behind it. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past, founded in 2001, has served tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Horace Capron
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Few portraits in this collection connect to as many distant places as this engraved likeness of Horace Capron, a man whose career ran from Illinois farms to federal offices and, eventually, to Japan. Capron served as U.S. Commissioner of Agriculture in the late 1860s, a post meant to gather crop information and promote scientific farming. In 1871 he went to Hokkaido as an adviser to the Japanese government's colonization office, where he encouraged American-style farming and livestock breeding. The engraving was produced by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, but its caption card is undated, so the exact date of the print remains uncertain.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : engraving. |
| Notes | Engraving by the Bureau of Engraving & Printing. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,154 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-106185 |
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