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Patrick Francis Murphy – Antique Print

Patrick Francis Murphy, [ca. 1900] — historic photograph
Patrick Francis Murphy, [ca. 1900]. 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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Patrick Francis Murphy comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Patrick Francis Murphy

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A single photographic print of Patrick Francis Murphy, dated about 1900, survives in an album labeled "Esther," which places it among the personal keepsakes a family kept rather than a studio's commercial output. The print is held in the Arthur Family Papers at the Library of Congress, so its meaning depends on who was assembling the album and why. Portraits from the 1890s and 1900s like this one were often exchanged among relatives and friends, and the album context is what makes the sitter's name worth tracing. The record does not say more about Murphy's life, so the print is best read as a window into how ordinary families preserved the faces of people they knew.

Created / published[ca. 1900]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePortrait photographs 1890-1910.Photographic prints 1890-1910.
NotesTitle from item. Photograph in album labelled: Esther. Forms part of the Arthur Family Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,300 × 5,262 px · prints to 14 × 18 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-213908

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