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[Unidentified woman, about 30 years of age, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the left, wearing bonnet] – Vintage Photo Print

[Unidentified woman, about 30 years of age, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the left, wearing bonnet], [between 1844 and 1860] — historic photograph
[Unidentified woman, about 30 years of age, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the left, wearing bonnet], [between 1844 and 1860]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive 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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A woman in a bonnet, turned three-quarters to the left and shown from the waist up, is the sitter here, though her name was never recorded. The plate dates from between 1844 and 1860 and was produced in a studio run by Mathew Brady, whose firm helped make the daguerreotype a popular form of portraiture. Gold toning, applied after development, warmed the silver surface and made the image more durable. Numbers scratched on the back and a 1920 transfer to the U.S. War College show how the plate came to the Library of Congress.

Created / published[between 1844 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype, gold toned.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860.
NotesScratched on back of plate: 64 [cancelled]; 87. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,273 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-186326

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