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[John Ross, full length portrait, facing front standing next to a small table] – Vintage Wall Art

[John Ross, full length portrait, facing front standing next to a small table], [ca. 1850] — historic photograph
[John Ross, full length portrait, facing front standing next to a small table], [ca. 1850]. 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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[John Ross, full length portrait, facing front standing next to a small table]

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Full-length daguerreotypes were less common than close head-and-shoulders studies, and this half-plate shows John Ross standing, facing the camera, beside a small table. The dates in the record, 1790 to 1866, match the Cherokee leader who served as Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation and led his people through the forced removal west in the 1830s. Made around 1850, the portrait captures a prominent figure in the middle of the nineteenth century, when Cherokee leaders were still contending with the consequences of removal.

Created / published[ca. 1850]
Medium1 photograph : half-plate daguerreotype.
GenreDaguerreotypes 1840-1860.Portrait photographs 1840-1850.
NotesCase: variant of Rinhart 131. Purchase; 2002; (DLC/PP-2002:128). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsRoss, John,--1790-1866.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,136 × 5,158 px · prints to 14 × 17 in at 300 dpi
Reference245_John_Ross_full_length_p_1850

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