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[Samuel W. Johnson, 1830-1909, bust, facing left, photo by Mack, New Haven, ca. 1900] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[Samuel W. Johnson, 1830-1909, bust, facing left, photo by Mack, New Haven, ca. 1900] — historic photograph
[Samuel W. Johnson, 1830-1909, bust, facing left, photo by Mack, New Haven, ca. 1900]. Historic photograph from the New Haven 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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[Samuel W. Johnson, 1830-1909, bust, facing left, photo by Mack, New Haven, ca. 1900]

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Here the sitter is Samuel W. Johnson, shown in a bust-length portrait turned to the left, the kind of formal studio view that was common around 1900. Johnson (1830-1909) was an agricultural chemist who taught at Yale's Sheffield Scientific School and founded the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station in New Haven in 1875, one of the first such stations in the United States. His soil and fertilizer analyses helped farmers across the region, and the work made New Haven a center of scientific agriculture. The portrait was made by Mack, a New Haven photographer, and it records a local figure whose research reached well beyond the city.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notesca. 1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,107 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-124297

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