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[Max Mason, bust portrait, facing right] – Antique Photo Print

[Max Mason, bust portrait, facing right] — historic photograph
[Max Mason, bust portrait, facing right]. Historic photograph from the Freemasons 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.)

Description

A window into the past: [Max Mason, bust portrait, facing right], preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Max Mason, bust portrait, facing right]

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This bust portrait shows a man named Max Mason in profile, turned to the right, in a format typical of formal studio portraits. The caption card gives no date, so the sitting cannot be placed in time from the record alone. The gallery groups it under Freemasons, a fraternal order whose members often sat for portraits that were kept in lodge records, shared in fraternal publications, or given to family. Such images are useful to researchers because they show how members presented themselves in the period when the photograph was made.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes[no date recorded on caption card]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,266 × 1,686 px · prints to 4 × 6 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-120878

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