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[Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins Poe, half-length portrait, facing front] – Antique Photo Print

[Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins Poe, half-length portrait, facing front], c1914 August 7. — historic photograph
[Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins Poe, half-length portrait, facing front], c1914 August 7.. 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins Poe, half-length portrait, facing front]. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins Poe, half-length portrait, facing front]

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This half-length portrait shows Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins Poe, a stage actress and the mother of writer Edgar Allan Poe, facing the viewer. She performed with American theater companies in the early 1800s, and she died in Richmond, Virginia, in 1811, when her son was about two. The record suggests the picture may be a photographic copy of an earlier lithograph, so the c1914 date likely refers to the copy rather than the original image. Its catalog entry also links it to a U.S. Copyright Office deposit, a common route by which early images reached the public record.

Created / publishedc1914 August 7.
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesJ195179 U.S. Copyright Office. Photo of lithograph? This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: BI; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,176 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-137300

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