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[Horace Greeley, 1811-1872, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[Horace Greeley, 1811-1872, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right] — antique engraving
[Horace Greeley, 1811-1872, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right]. Antique engraving 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: [Horace Greeley, 1811-1872, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right], preserved in this antique engraving. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Horace Greeley, 1811-1872, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right]

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Horace Greeley, the newspaper editor who founded the New-York Tribune, appears here in a head-and-shoulders view turned toward the right, a pose common in nineteenth-century portrait engravings. Steel engraving allowed printers to produce fine, durable plates in large runs, which made images of public men like Greeley widely circulated in books, periodicals, and cheap single sheets. Greeley was a prominent voice in debates over slavery, westward expansion, and labor, and he ran for president in 1872 as the Liberal Republican and Democratic nominee. The caption card gives no date, so the engraving's exact year is unrecorded.

Medium1 print : steel engraving.
Notes[no date recorded on caption card]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,224 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-120774

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