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[David Kellogg Cartter, Chief Justice, half-length portrait, facing left] – Vintage Photo Print

[David Kellogg Cartter, Chief Justice, half-length portrait, facing left], [between 1860 and 1887(?)] — historic photograph
[David Kellogg Cartter, Chief Justice, half-length portrait, facing left], [between 1860 and 1887(?)]. 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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This rare historic photograph captures [David Kellogg Cartter, Chief Justice, half-length portrait, facing left] in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[David Kellogg Cartter, Chief Justice, half-length portrait, facing left]

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This half-length portrait shows David Kellogg Cartter, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, turned to the left in the formal manner of the period. The print is made from a Brady negative, which points to the Washington studio of Mathew Brady, whose sitters included many government officials, judges, and members of Congress during the mid-19th century. Cartter's career reached from Ohio politics to the federal bench in the capital, and his portrait belongs to the broader collection of studio images that documented the men who shaped the nation's courts and government in those decades.

Created / published[between 1860 and 1887(?)]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePortrait photographs 1860-1890.Photographic prints 1860-1890.
NotesPhotograph from Brady negative.
SubjectsCartter, David K. (David Kellogg),--1812-1887.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,010 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-162140

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