Boies Penrose – Antique Wall Art
(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 Boies Penrose in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Boies Penrose
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The sitter is Boies Penrose, a Pennsylvania Republican, and the record gives no date or setting, so the occasion of the portrait is unknown. Penrose served in the United States Senate from 1897 until his death in 1921 and was one of the most powerful party managers of the Progressive Era, shaping both Pennsylvania politics and national Republican policy. The Bain News Service, which made this glass negative, supplied photographs of politicians and public figures to newspapers, so portraits like this were made for publication. The identification rests on unverified studio data, so it is worth reading with that caveat in mind.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch two loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,779 × 4,204 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-10522 |
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