Daguerreotype portrait of David Hostetter, man in dark coat – Vintage Photo Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Daguerreotype portrait of David Hostetter, man in dark coat, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
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Daguerreotype portrait of David Hostetter, man in dark coat
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A daguerreotype from around 1850 showing a man named David Hostetter in a dark coat, a sitter whose name is preserved in the record while little else survives about him. Daguerreotypes were made on a polished silver-coated copper plate, which gives them a mirror-like surface that shifts from positive to negative as the viewer tilts it. By 1850 the process had been public for about eleven years and portrait studios were common in American cities, so sitters of modest means could afford a likeness. Because each plate is a single unique image with no negative, the surface is fragile and the sharpness of the face is worth examining closely.
| Created / published | 1850 |
|---|---|
| Original scan | 3,578 × 4,389 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 675_Unidentified_man_possib_1850 |
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