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Mr. Angel, postmaster – Antique Print

Mr. Angel, postmaster, [1855] — historic photograph
Mr. Angel, postmaster, [1855]. 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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Few of the pictures in Roger Fenton's Crimean series show a single working man at his post, which sets this portrait of Mr. Angel, identified as a postmaster, apart. Fenton spent several months in the Crimea in 1855, photographing the British army's camps, officers, and supply lines for an audience back home. The Army's postal service was a vital link between soldiers and their families, so a postmaster was a familiar and necessary figure in the camps. This salted paper print was made from a paper negative, a process that gave the images their soft, warm tones and fine texture.

Created / published[1855]
Medium1 photographic print : salted paper ; 20 x 17 cm.
GenrePortrait photographs 1850-1860.Salted paper prints 1850-1860.
NotesTitle transcribed from verso. Purchase; Frances M. Fenton; 1944. Forms part of: Roger Fenton Crimean War photograph collection.
SubjectsCrimean War, 1853-1856. Postal service employees--British--Ukraine--Crimea--1850-1860.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,237 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-129131

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