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Oval sepia portrait of a man in dark coat and bow tie – Antique Photo Print

Oval sepia portrait of a man in dark coat and bow tie — historic image
Oval sepia portrait of a man in dark coat and bow tie. Historic image from the Lincoln Home National Historic Site collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: Oval sepia portrait of a man in dark coat and bow tie, preserved in this historic image. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.

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Oval sepia portrait of a man in dark coat and bow tie

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An oval, sepia-toned portrait of a man in a dark coat and bow tie shows the studio style that filled family albums in the later 1800s. The warm brown cast and the vignetted oval edges were typical of albumen prints, which photographers often finished by hand to soften the background and give the sitter a formal look. This picture appears under the Lincoln Home National Historic Site heading, which marks the house in Springfield, Illinois, where Abraham Lincoln lived with his family from 1844 to 1861. The record does not name the sitter, so the portrait is best read as a window onto everyday photography of that era.

Original scan1,150 × 1,403 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
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