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[Ten unidentified young people, four men and one woman are standing, seated in front are two men and three women, all facing nearly front] – Vintage Photo Print

[Ten unidentified young people, four men and one woman are standing, seated in front are two men and three women, all facing nearly front], [between 1844 and 1860] — historic photograph
[Ten unidentified young people, four men and one woman are standing, seated in front are two men and three women, all facing nearly front], [between 1844 and 1860]. 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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Ten young people, five standing and five seated in front, face nearly toward the camera in this half-plate daguerreotype, and their names were never recorded. The record credits Mathew Brady's studio, which made portraits in New York and Washington during the 1840s and 1850s, and the gold toning that warms the silvery image was a common step meant to strengthen the delicate surface. The plate reached the Library of Congress in 1920 from the U.S. War College, and the number 253 scratched on its back hints at how it was tracked before then. Worth noticing are the rounded corners and the formal, evenly spaced grouping typical of the period.

Created / published[between 1844 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype, gold toned.
GenreGroup portraits 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860.
NotesScratched on back of plate: 253. Corners rounded. 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 scan4,096 × 3,292 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
Reference314_Ten_unidentified_young_1844

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