Crispus Attucks – Vintage 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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Few images capture their era like this historic print of Crispus Attucks. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Crispus Attucks
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A halftone portrait of Crispus Attucks, dated around 1897, presents the man whose death made him a central figure of the Boston Massacre, which took place on March 5, 1770, outside the Old State House. Halftone reproduction, new in the 1890s, let publishers print photographic likenesses cheaply in books and periodicals, and this sheet was copyrighted by W.H. Curd of Chicago. No verified likeness of Attucks survives from his lifetime, so such late-nineteenth-century portraits were usually later imaginings shaped by the period's interest in him as a patriot and a symbol of early resistance.
| Created / published | c1897. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : halftone ; 25.6 x 20 cm (sheet). |
| Genre | Halftone photomechanical prints 1890-1900.Portrait prints 1890-1900. |
| Notes | Copyright by W.H. Curd, Chicago, Ill. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: BI; Shelf. |
| Subjects | Attucks, Crispus,--d. 1770. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,421 × 4,500 px · prints to 11 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | tif15704_CrispusAttucks |
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