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[Henry Clay Caldwell, 1832-1915, bust, photo] – Historic Photograph Print

[Henry Clay Caldwell, 1832-1915, bust, photo] — historic print
[Henry Clay Caldwell, 1832-1915, bust, photo]. Historic print 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: [Henry Clay Caldwell, 1832-1915, bust, photo], preserved in this historic print. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[Henry Clay Caldwell, 1832-1915, bust, photo]

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The subject of this bust-length portrait is Henry Clay Caldwell (1832-1915), an Ohio-born lawyer who practiced in Arkansas and went on to serve as a federal judge. The caption card records no date, so the photograph could come from any stage of his long life, and the record does not say who made it. Caldwell's career spanned the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the growth of federal courts in the West, which gives this portrait its context. Portraits like this one were often made for professional use, so the image is most useful as a record of how a jurist of his era presented himself.

Medium1 item.
Notes[no date recorded on caption card]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,074 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-119280

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