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[Gerard Hallock, half-length portrait, facing front, with chin whiskers] – Vintage Photo Print

[Gerard Hallock, half-length portrait, facing front, with chin whiskers], [between 1844 and 1860] — historic photograph
[Gerard Hallock, half-length portrait, facing front, with chin whiskers], [between 1844 and 1860]. Historic photograph from the Daguerreotypes & Early Photography 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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[Gerard Hallock, half-length portrait, facing front, with chin whiskers]

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This half-plate daguerreotype is the only portrait in this group that is identified on the plate itself: a note scratched on the back reads "Halock from NY," which matches the sitter's name, Gerard Hallock (1800-1866). Hallock was a New York newspaperman, best known as an editor of the *Journal of Commerce*, and the record links the plate to Mathew Brady's studio. Daguerreotypes like this one were typically made in the 1840s and 1850s, when a sitter had to hold still for several seconds under studio light. Gold toning, applied to sharpen the image and add warmth, is visible in the surface, and the record also lists alternate spellings of the name, "Halleck" and "Haloc," that researchers should keep in mind.

Created / published[between 1844 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype, gold toned.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860.
NotesAlternative identifications: Halleck; Haloc. Scratched on back of plate: Halock from NY. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.
SubjectsHallock, Gerard,--1800-1866.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,263 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference194_Gerard_Hallock_halfleng_1844

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