Miles Standish – Historic Print
(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 print captures Miles Standish in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Here the subject is Miles Standish, the Plymouth Colony soldier, shown in a reproduction of a painting by Alexander M. Harrison, whose copyright is noted on the record. Standish arrived at Plymouth on the Mayflower in 1620 and served as the colony's military captain, charged with defending the small English settlement. By the late 1890s, when this print is dated, he had become a familiar figure in American popular memory, partly through Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1858 poem *The Courtship of Miles Standish*. As a reproduction, the print shows how a painted image of a colonial figure reached a broad audience.
| Created / published | c1898. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print. |
| Notes | Repro. of painting, copyrighted by Alexander M. Harrison. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: B.I.; Publ. Ind.; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,118 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-155802 |
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