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[Caleb Cushing, 1800-1879, full-length portrait, standing, arms folded, facing left] – Historic Photograph Print

[Caleb Cushing, 1800-1879, full-length portrait, standing, arms folded, facing left] — historic photograph
[Caleb Cushing, 1800-1879, full-length portrait, standing, arms folded, facing left]. 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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A window into the past: [Caleb Cushing, 1800-1879, full-length portrait, standing, arms folded, facing left], preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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[Caleb Cushing, 1800-1879, full-length portrait, standing, arms folded, facing left]

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Caleb Cushing appears here full length, standing with his arms folded and turned toward the left of the frame. Cushing (1800-1879) was a Massachusetts lawyer and congressman who negotiated the Treaty of Wanghia with China in 1844 and later served as U.S. Attorney General under Franklin Pierce. The caption card gives no date, so the portrait is best read as a record of a public man at a busy point in a long career. Full-length portraits like this were a common way for nineteenth-century officeholders to present authority in a single figure.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes[no date recorded on caption card]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan958 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-126713

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