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James Laughlin – Historic Reproduction

James Laughlin, [between 1906 and 1910] — historic photograph
James Laughlin, [between 1906 and 1910]. Historic photograph from the Detroit Publishing Company 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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The record gives only the sitter's name, James Laughlin, with no occupation, location or caption to place him, so the portrait has to be read through its origins. It is a glass dry plate negative from the Detroit Publishing Company, a firm that made large numbers of images in the years around 1906 to 1910 for commercial sale. The 8 x 10 inch plate was given to the Library of Congress in 1949 by the State Historical Society of Colorado, which accounts for the Colorado connection in its notes. Large-format glass negatives of this period typically recorded fine detail, so features and clothing tend to survive with more clarity than in smaller formats.

Created / published[between 1906 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
Notes242" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 062839. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 793 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-71450

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