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[Prudence Crandall, bust portrait] – Vintage Wall Art

[Prudence Crandall, bust portrait] — historic print
[Prudence Crandall, bust portrait]. Historic print 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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A window into the past: [Prudence Crandall, bust portrait], preserved in this historic print. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Prudence Crandall is shown here in a close bust portrait, reproduced as a halftone around 1897, several years after her death in 1890. She is remembered for a single bold act in Canterbury, Connecticut, where in 1833 she opened a boarding school for young Black women. Local hostility and a state law passed that same year forced the school to close within a year, and her case became an early landmark in the struggle over access to education. Halftone was the standard method for printing photographs in books and periodicals at the time, so this image likely circulated in that kind of publication.

Medium1 photomechanical print : halftone.
Notesc1897.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,169 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-118500

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