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[Sgt. Thomas Shaw, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[Sgt. Thomas Shaw, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left], [ca. 1900] — historic photograph
[Sgt. Thomas Shaw, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left], [ca. 1900]. 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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[Sgt. Thomas Shaw, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Sergeant Thomas Shaw appears in a tightly cropped, head-and-shoulders studio portrait, turned slightly to his left, made around 1900. The Library of Congress holds it as a detail from a larger lot of plates depicting Medal of Honor recipients. It comes from the Daniel Murray Collection, assembled by Murray, an assistant librarian at the Library, to document African American achievement, much of it gathered for the 1900 Paris Exposition. Black soldiers who earned the nation's highest military decoration in this era often served in segregated units on the frontier and in the Spanish-American War, and portraits like this one were meant to show their service and dignity to a wider public.

Created / published[ca. 1900]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePortrait photographs 1890-1910.Photographic prints 1890-1910.
NotesDaniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress). Surrogate available as microfilm in P&P Reading Room.
SubjectsAfrican Americans--Military service.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,280 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-194740

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