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Seated man with pince-nez and mustache, portrait photograph – Historic Photo Reproduction

Seated man with pince-nez and mustache, portrait photograph — historic photograph
Seated man with pince-nez and mustache, portrait photograph. Historic photograph from the Presidents collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: Seated man with pince-nez and mustache, portrait photograph, preserved in this historic photograph. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.

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Seated man with pince-nez and mustache, portrait photograph

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A seated man in pince-nez and a full mustache is the first detail to notice here, since those clip-on spectacles were a common sight among professional men around the turn of the twentieth century. The gallery files the portrait under Theodore Roosevelt, and studio portraits of presidents from this period were typically posed like this one, with a formal sitter and plain backdrop, to project dignity. The record does not name the photographer or the exact date, so the occasion itself remains uncertain.

Original scan4,078 × 5,144 px · prints to 14 × 17 in at 300 dpi
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