Portraits of Government Clerks Appointed Through Civil Service Examinations – Vintage Photo Print
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Portraits of Government Clerks Appointed Through Civil Service Examinations comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Portraits of Government Clerks Appointed Through Civil Service Examinations
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Civil service examinations, which in the United States began to reshape federal hiring after the Pendleton Act of 1883, replaced patronage with merit-based selection, and this group of portraits records the clerks who entered government work through that process. Rather than a single workplace or event, the picture centers on the people themselves, with the formal, carefully composed poses typical of the period. Worth noticing is how these sitters present themselves: studio portraiture of office workers was a way of claiming respectability and a stable public position at a time when government jobs were newly open to people who could pass a test.
| Original scan | 4,168 × 5,238 px · prints to 14 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 08995u government clerks |
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