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[Henry George, 1839-1897, bust portrait, facing left] – Antique Photo Print

[Henry George, 1839-1897, bust portrait, facing left], 1photomechanical print : photogravure. — historic print
[Henry George, 1839-1897, bust portrait, facing left], 1photomechanical print : photogravure.. 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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This rare historic print captures [Henry George, 1839-1897, bust portrait, facing left] in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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[Henry George, 1839-1897, bust portrait, facing left]

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Henry George, the economist and reformer who wrote "Progress and Poverty" (1879), is shown here in a bust portrait turned to the left, a pose typical of formal nineteenth-century likenesses. The image is a photogravure, a process that uses an etched copper plate to reproduce photographs with fine tonal detail, and it was widely used for book and magazine illustration in that period. George's proposal to tax land values rather than labor and improvements drew large followings in the 1880s and 1890s, and he ran for mayor of New York in 1886 and again in 1897, the year of his death. The record does not give a date for this print, so it is best understood as a portrait from his later public life.

Created / published1photomechanical print : photogravure.
Notes[no date recorded on caption card]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,020 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-130710

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