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[Mr. Miller, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[Mr. Miller, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front], [between 1840 and 1860] — historic photograph
[Mr. Miller, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front], [between 1840 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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A window into the past: [Mr. Miller, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front], preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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A small sixth-plate daguerreotype of Mr. Miller, shown head and shoulders and facing the camera, is part of the papers of Harriet Mann Miller, the writer who wrote under the name Olive Thorne Miller. The accompanying note identifies him as the father of Watts Todd Miller, and the plate is kept with a companion image of his wife, the sitter's mother. The photographer is unidentified, and the hallmark is illegible. Made between 1840 and 1860, when daguerreotypes were the dominant portrait process, the image has a mirror-like silver surface that changes with the angle of light.

Created / published[between 1840 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : sixth plate daguerreotype.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860.
NotesPhotographer unidentified. Hallmark: [illegible]. Case: Krainik 277. Accompanying note: Father and mother of Watts Todd Miller, husband of Olive Thorne Miller (Harriet Mann Miller). Housed with DAG no. 1228. Transfer; Manuscript Division; 1993; (DLC/PP-1993:137). Forms part of: Harriet Mann Miller Papers, 1891-1918 (Library of Congress). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,265 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference273_Mr_Miller_headandshould_1840

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