William Boyd Allison, 1829-1908 – Historic Print
![William Boyd Allison, 1829-1908, [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/fe/fedd3ed2a8bf-L.webp)
(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 photograph captures William Boyd Allison, 1829-1908 in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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William Boyd Allison, 1829-1908
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William Boyd Allison (1829-1908) was a Republican senator from Iowa who served in Washington for many years, and this portrait is credited to C.M. Bell of Washington, D.C., a studio known for its formal studio portraits of political and public figures in the late nineteenth century. Allison was a prominent figure in the Senate, chairing key committees and taking part in the tariff and railroad debates of his era. The caption card carries no date, so the sitting itself cannot be placed precisely, but the Bell studio's output suggests a Gilded Age origin.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | Photo by C.M. Bell, Wash., D.C. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog. I.; BI; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,014 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-140854 |
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