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[Robert Johnson, half-length portrait, seated, facing right] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[Robert Johnson, half-length portrait, seated, facing right] — historic print
[Robert Johnson, half-length portrait, seated, facing right]. Historic print 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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[Robert Johnson, half-length portrait, seated, facing right]

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Turned to the right and posed seated from the waist up, this portrait shows its subject in a formal studio arrangement that was common for sitters of the early twentieth century. The caption card gives the name Robert Johnson but no date, so the record does not say which man this is or when the picture was made. The name is most widely associated with the Mississippi Delta blues guitarist who recorded in the late 1930s, but the card does not confirm that identification. Readers who want to pin down the sitter should check the Library's catalog for related items, which may hold a date or biographical notes.

Medium1 item.
Notes[no date recorded on caption card]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,275 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-123088

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