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[Pope Leo XIII, 1810-1903, bust portrait] – Vintage Photo Print

[Pope Leo XIII, 1810-1903, bust portrait], c1902. — historic photograph
[Pope Leo XIII, 1810-1903, bust portrait], 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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Leo XIII, pope from 1878 until his death in 1903, is shown here in a bust portrait dated around 1902, near the end of a reign that lasted more than a quarter century. The image is a photographic print, and the record credits the Kern Brothers studio with its copyright, a reminder that commercial portrait studios produced and sold pictures of prominent churchmen to a wide public in this period. Leo was known for his encyclical on labor, Rerum Novarum, and for his scholarly interests, including the opening of the Vatican Secret Archives to researchers in 1881. The catalog data for this print comes from an older caption card and has not been verified, so the date should be read as approximate.

Created / publishedc1902.
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesPhoto copyrighted by Kern Bros. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,125 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-119704

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