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Photography in Politics
March 26, 1868 issue

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Photography is the more potent agent. Now, to serve one's country is to have one's picture in shop-windows from Eastport to San Francisco, California. More voters know diplomat Andrew Johnson's features than can read his messages or the reports of his trial, and there is not a foreign potentate or statesman or artist or author or actor or person of any distinction of any sort of whom the poorest man may not now own a better portrait than hundreds or thousands of dollars, paid to genius, would have enabled one to buy a quarter of a century ago.

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PHOTOGRAPHY; POLITICAL cartoons; JOHNSON, Andrew, 1808-1875; ARTISTS; SAN Francisco (Calif.); CALIFORNIA; UNITED States
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