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[Henry Leavitt Ellsworth, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[Henry Leavitt Ellsworth, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left], 1902 — historic print
[Henry Leavitt Ellsworth, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left], 1902. Historic print 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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Shown in a head-and-shoulders view facing left, Henry Leavitt Ellsworth appears here as a halftone reproduction published in the 1902 Yearbook of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, more than four decades after his death in 1858. Ellsworth served as Commissioner of Patents from 1836 to 1845, and under his direction the Patent Office began collecting agricultural statistics and distributing seeds to farmers, work that helped lay the groundwork for the department. By 1902, the halftone process, which let printers reproduce photographs alongside type, had become common in government reports, so this portrait reflects both the era's printing methods and the yearbook's effort to recognize early agricultural leaders.

Created / published1902
Medium1 photomechanical print : halftone.
GenrePortrait prints 1900-1910.Halftone photomechanical prints 1900-1910.
NotesIllus. in: Yearbook U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, 1902. C. A. Browne collection.
SubjectsEllsworth, Henry Leavitt,--1791-1858.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,139 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-111853

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