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[Unidentified man, half-length portrait, facing left] – Historic Photograph Print

[Unidentified man, half-length portrait, facing left], [ca. 1855] — historic photograph
[Unidentified man, half-length portrait, facing left], [ca. 1855]. 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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[Unidentified man, half-length portrait, facing left] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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[Unidentified man, half-length portrait, facing left]

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The name F. Grice, stamped on the brass mat, and the circle motif on the case set this half-length portrait of an unidentified man apart. Made around 1855, when daguerreotypes were at the height of their popularity, the image is sealed on a silvered copper plate behind glass, so its surface reflects like a mirror and shifts with the viewer's angle. Such cases were often kept as keepsakes, and this sitter, turned to his left, is one of many people of the period whose names went unrecorded.

Created / published[ca. 1855]
Medium1 photograph : half-plate daguerreotype.
GenreDaguerreotypes 1850-1860.Portrait photographs 1850-1860.
NotesCase: ornamental circle theme. Stamped on brass mat: F. Grice. Barboza number: 6019.053. Purchase; Anthony Barboza; 1999; (DLC/PP-1999:022). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,737 × 4,662 px · prints to 12 × 16 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-222340

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