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[Thaddeus Stevens, half-length portrait, seated, facing front] – Antique Photo Print

[Thaddeus Stevens, half-length portrait, seated, facing front], [between 1850 and 1868] — historic photograph
[Thaddeus Stevens, half-length portrait, seated, facing front], [between 1850 and 1868]. 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 [Thaddeus Stevens, half-length portrait, seated, facing front] in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Thaddeus Stevens, the Pennsylvania congressman and fierce opponent of slavery, appears here in a seated half-length view turned toward the camera. The portrait comes from the Brady-Handy Collection, the large body of work by Mathew Brady's studio and photographer Levin Handy, assembled in the years around the Civil War. Stevens, who led the House Ways and Means Committee and later chaired its Committee on Reconstruction, was among the most powerful Republicans in Washington when this sitting was made. The photograph is a useful record of how leading legislators presented themselves to the public in that era.

Created / published[between 1850 and 1868]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePortrait photographs 1850-1870.Photographic prints 1850-1870.
NotesBrady-Handy Collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsStevens, Thaddeus,--1792-1868.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,791 × 4,725 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-221460

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