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Temperance advocate. – Historic Reproduction

Temperance advocate., [ca. 1851] — historic photograph
Temperance advocate., [ca. 1851]. Historic photograph from the Family Life 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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Few daguerreotypes of the early 1850s are titled as openly as this one, which identifies its subject by a cause rather than a name. The sitter is not identified in the record, but the title places her within the temperance movement, which drew many women into public reform work before the Civil War. Hand-coloring, applied by hand to the silvered plate, added tints to what would otherwise be a monochrome image, and the oval scroll pattern on the case reflects the decorative styles common to such cases. The photographer is unknown, but the piece gives a sense of how portraiture and reform politics overlapped in mid-century America.

Created / published[ca. 1851]
Medium1 photograph : sixth plate daguerreotype, hand-colored.
NotesPhotographer unidentified. Case: back only, oval surrounded by scroll motif. Purchase; 1996; (DLC/PP-1996:031). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Published under title Temperance advocate" in: Eyes of the Nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and the curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York : Knopf
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,160 × 1,473 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-218472

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