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[Negro with two horses] – Historic Reproduction

[Negro with two horses], [ca. 1930] — historic photograph
[Negro with two horses], [ca. 1930]. Historic photograph from the Horses 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 [Negro with two horses] in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Among the horse subjects here, this picture stands out for its focus on a man working with two animals, with the human figure at its center. Doris Ulmann, a New York photographer, made many portraits of rural Southern and Appalachian people around 1930, often in platinum prints prized for their soft tonal range. The caption card's title uses a phrase common in that period but now considered offensive, and the record notes its details are unverified, so the exact location and sitter remain uncertain. The Library of Congress received the print as a gift from the Doris Ulmann Foundation in 1935.

Created / published[ca. 1930]
Medium1 photographic print : platinum ; 8 x 6 in. (20.1 x 15.4 cm.).
GenrePlatinum prints 1930.
NotesThis record contains unverified data from caption card. Gift; Doris Ulmann Foundation, 1935 (DLC/PP-1935:055).
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,181 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-116650

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