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[F.B. Carpenter, head-and-shoulders portrait, three-quarters to the right] – Antique Photo Print

[F.B. Carpenter, head-and-shoulders portrait, three-quarters to the right], [between 1850 and 1860] — historic photograph
[F.B. Carpenter, head-and-shoulders portrait, three-quarters to the right], [between 1850 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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This rare historic photograph captures [F.B. Carpenter, head-and-shoulders portrait, three-quarters to the right] in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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[F.B. Carpenter, head-and-shoulders portrait, three-quarters to the right]

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Turned three-quarters to the right, this head-and-shoulders study shows Francis Bicknell Carpenter, who was in his twenties when the half-plate daguerreotype was made in the 1850s. A paper label on the cover glass bears his name, and the identification follows Meserve and Sandburg's 1944 catalog of Lincoln photographs. The plate is credited to Mathew Brady's studio, and gold toning gives its silvery surface a warmer tone. Carpenter later became a painter, best known for his canvas of Lincoln reading the Emancipation Proclamation to his cabinet.

Created / published[between 1850 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype, gold toned.
GenrePortrait photographs 1850-1860.Daguerreotypes 1850-1860.
NotesAccompanying paper label on cover glass inscribed: Carpenter. Identification from Meserve and Sandburg, The Photographs of Abraham Lincoln, 1944 (unpaged). Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.
SubjectsCarpenter, F. B. (Francis Bicknell),--1830-1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,227 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
Reference75_FB_Carpenter_headandsho_1850

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