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Composite photograph group of the Chiefs of Police, New York City – Historic Photograph Print

Composite photograph group of the Chiefs of Police, New York City, c1889. — historic photograph
Composite photograph group of the Chiefs of Police, New York City, c1889.. Historic photograph from the New York City 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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Step back in time with Composite photograph group of the Chiefs of Police, New York City, a historic photograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Rather than showing individual sitters side by side, this photograph presents the chiefs of police of New York City as one blended likeness, built by layering several portraits into a single image. Composite portraiture was a fashionable photographic technique in the late 1880s, and it was often used to suggest a typical or representative type rather than any one man. The caption card credits D.H. Anderson with the copyright, but the record flags its details as unverified, so the identities of the sitters and the date should be checked against other sources.

Created / publishedc1889.
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsPhoto copyrighted by D.H. Anderson. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Composite pictures; Photog. I.; NY--NYC--Misc.--1889; Police--1889; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,045 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-147143

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