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Miss Lena Clark posed with three other women – Vintage Wall Art

Miss Lena Clark posed with three other women, 1905 — historic photograph
Miss Lena Clark posed with three other women, 1905. 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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Miss Lena Clark posed with three other women comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Miss Lena Clark posed with three other women

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The title names Miss Lena Clark as one of four women posed together in this 1905 photograph, which gives the image a specific person to anchor it. The record places the group in Africa between 1900 and 1910, a period when European and American women worked there as missionaries, teachers, and colonial household members, and when portraits like this were often made for family or institutional use. The record does not say where the sitting took place or what brought the women together, so the posing and clothing are the best clues to their circumstances.

Created / published1905
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePortrait photographs 1900-1910.Group portraits 1900-1910.Photographic prints 1900-1910.
SubjectsWomen--Africa--1900-1910.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,042 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-165500

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