HENRY GEORGE

CABINET PHOTOGRAPH

bearded, bust portrait in right profile

vintage, 4 1/4"  x  6 1/2"

 by the Charles B. Schaidner studio of New York

with his name printed under image

Signed and inscribed on verso with sentiment to: 

                                                                                             "Miss Ada Langley with regards of Henry George,

1889 (month is blurry) N.Y."

Condition: very good

Henry George was an American political economist and the most influential proponent of the

 "Single Tax" on land, also known as the land value tax.

 His most famous work was "Progress

 and Poverty", 1879. In 1886, now a popular writer and speaker, he ran for Mayor of New York

City; he did not win. He ran for Mayor again in 1897, but died four days before the election.

Born: 1839, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; died: 1897, New York City, New York.