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[Samuel F. B. Morse, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right] – Historic Photograph Print

[Samuel F. B. Morse, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right], [ca. 1845] — historic photograph
[Samuel F. B. Morse, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right], [ca. 1845]. 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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Step back in time with [Samuel F. B. Morse, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right], a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Samuel F. B. Morse, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right]

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This sixth-plate daguerreotype shows Samuel F. B. Morse in a head-and-shoulders view, turned to the right, with a scroll-patterned case that suits the mid-1840s. Morse was a portrait painter before he became known for the electric telegraph, and he had seen the daguerreotype process in Paris in 1839 and brought it back to America, where he promoted and taught it. The portrait, made about the time he was introducing the telegraph to the public, shows a man who was already at the center of two new technologies. The small mirror-like plate is worth looking at closely, since its surface changes with the angle of light.

Created / published[ca. 1845]
Medium1 photograph : sixth plate daguerreotype.
GenreJr.
NotesCase: scroll motif. Plate mark: Six pointed star with the word DOUBLE" under which appears "J
SubjectsMorse, Samuel Finley Breese,--1791-1872.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,676 × 5,775 px · prints to 16 × 19 in at 300 dpi
Reference304_Samuel_F_B_Morse_headan_1845

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