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Margaret Mather no. 16 – Antique Wall Art

Margaret Mather no. 16, 1883 Jul 28. — historic photograph
Margaret Mather no. 16, 1883 Jul 28.. 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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A window into the past: Margaret Mather no. 16, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Margaret Mather no. 16

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Margaret Mather, an American stage actress who lived from 1859 to 1898, sits for this numbered card portrait dated July 28, 1883. Photographers of the period issued such mounted cards in series, and actors and actresses sold them to a public eager to collect the faces of stars. The copyright notation on the record shows the studio registered the image with the U.S. Copyright Office, a step that protected the photograph from unauthorized copying. The card offers a glimpse of how theatrical celebrity was built in the 1880s, when a portrait could travel as far as a touring company.

Created / published1883 Jul 28.
Medium1 photographic print on card mount.
GenrePortrait photographs 1880-1890.Panel card photographs 1880-1890.Photographic prints 1880-1890.
Notes13969-0 U.S. Copyright Office.
SubjectsMather, Margaret,--1859-1898. Actresses--1880-1890.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,265 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-204745

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