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Daniel C. French in the Chesterwoord studio working on the bust of Ambrose Swasey – Historic Print

Daniel C. French in the Chesterwoord studio working on the bust of Ambrose Swasey — historic photograph
Daniel C. French in the Chesterwoord studio working on the bust of Ambrose Swasey. Historic photograph from the Presidents 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: Daniel C. French in the Chesterwoord studio working on the bust of Ambrose Swasey, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Daniel C. French in the Chesterwoord studio working on the bust of Ambrose Swasey

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Here the sculptor Daniel Chester French is shown in his studio at Chesterwood, his estate in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, working on a bust of Ambrose Swasey, the Cleveland engineer who co-founded the Warner & Swasey machine tool company. Dated 1922, the photograph shows French during a period when portrait commissions made up much of his output, even as he was best known for the seated Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial, completed in 1920. The picture's place on a Lincoln board is a reminder of how closely French's name is tied to that monument, though this scene shows his everyday portrait work rather than the Lincoln figure itself.

Medium1 photographic print.
Genreold data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf."
Notes1922
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan2,935 × 2,302 px · prints to 10 × 8 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-121861

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