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[Beatrice Abbey, full-length portrait, seated, facing front] – Antique Photo Print

[Beatrice Abbey, full-length portrait, seated, facing front], 1900, c1902. — historic photograph
[Beatrice Abbey, full-length portrait, seated, facing front], 1900, c1902.. 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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[Beatrice Abbey, full-length portrait, seated, facing front]

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Seated and facing forward, Beatrice Abbey is shown full length in this studio portrait, a pose favored around 1900 because it displayed both the sitter's face and her clothing. The print carries a copyright notice in the name of E. Chickering, which suggests it was issued commercially rather than made as a private snapshot. Studio portraits of this kind, often taken against painted backdrops with posed furniture, were commonly mounted on card and collected in albums, and they preserve a useful record of fashionable dress in the early twentieth century. The record offers few details about the sitter's life, so the picture is best read as an example of the portrait conventions of its time.

Created / published1900, c1902.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePortrait photographs 1900.Photographic prints 1900.
NotesCopyright by E. Chickering.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,084 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-161169

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