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[Emilie Grigsby, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing slightly right] – Historic Photograph Print

[Emilie Grigsby, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing slightly right], [between 1890 and 1920] — historic photograph
[Emilie Grigsby, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing slightly right], [between 1890 and 1920]. 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: [Emilie Grigsby, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing slightly right], preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Emilie Grigsby, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing slightly right]

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Emilie Grigsby sits in this three-quarter-length portrait, turned slightly to the right, a pose that photographers of the 1890s and early 1900s often used to show both the face and the figure. Studio portraits from these decades were usually posed against painted backdrops and studio furniture, and the sitter's clothing, posture, and hands were chosen with care, since the image was meant to present a respectable public identity. The record dates the print only to the years 1890 to 1920, so the exact year and the photographer are not known. The Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs Division holds the image, which places it among the many personal portraits from that period that now serve as evidence of how ordinary people chose to be seen.

Created / published[between 1890 and 1920]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePortrait photographs 1890-1920.Photographic prints 1890-1920.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,257 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-182169

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