Studio portrait of a bearded man in a bow tie – Historic Photo Reproduction
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
A window into the past: Studio portrait of a bearded man in a bow tie, preserved in this historic image. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Studio portrait of a bearded man in a bow tie
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A bearded man in a bow tie poses for the camera in this studio portrait, and the record does not name him, so it is best read as a window onto its era rather than a documented figure. Studio portraits like this were widely made in the 1860s, when sitters posed before painted backdrops and dressed carefully to signal respectability. Full beards and neat bow ties were fashionable among men of the period, so the picture shows how ordinary people presented themselves in the years around Abraham Lincoln's 1863 address at Gettysburg. Within a set of images about that speech, it offers a human counterpart to the famous words.
| Original scan | 2,750 × 3,287 px · prints to 9 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | L-P-31 |
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