Portraits of America

[Joseph Githens, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]

1865·Source: loc·View original ↗·Public Domain
[Joseph Githens, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front], 1865 (Library of Congress)
[Joseph Githens, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front], 1865 (Library of Congress)
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1 photograph : albumen print on card mount ; mount 98 x 63 mm (carte de visite format)


This carte de visite portrait shows Joseph Githens in 1865. The photograph was made by R. F. (Rodney F.) Adams as an albumen print mounted on card.

No further information about Joseph Githens is recorded in the archive, and nothing is known about the circumstances of the sitting or Adams's photographic practice.

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