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Occupational portrait o – Historic Photograph Print

Occupational portrait o, 1850 — historic photograph
Occupational portrait o, 1850. Historic photograph from the Daguerreotypes & Early Photography collection.

(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 Occupational portrait o, a historic photograph rich in period detail. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.

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Occupational portrait o

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Identified by trade rather than by name, this sixth-plate daguerreotype presents a latch maker in an occupational portrait made sometime between 1850 and 1860. The small, affordable format made portraits accessible to working people, and the hand coloring adds tints to faces and dress that the bare silver plate could not show.

Created / published1850
Original scan3,304 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference614_Occupational_portrait_o_1850

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