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Daguerreotype portrait of a man with a barrel – Historic Photo Reproduction

Daguerreotype portrait of a man with a barrel, 1840 — historic photograph
Daguerreotype portrait of a man with a barrel, 1840. 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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Daguerreotype portrait of a man with a barrel comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.

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Daguerreotype portrait of a man with a barrel

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A man posing beside a barrel sets this plate apart from the seated, formal portraits that dominate early daguerreotype work, and the cask hints at a trade or at a deliberate choice of setting. Daguerreotypes were made on silvered copper, and each one was a unique object with no negative to reproduce it. In 1840, exposures still ran from several seconds to minutes, so sitters had to hold very still, and a prop like this one added its own difficulties. Tilted in the light, the surface shifts between a positive image and a mirror, a quality worth noticing in person.

Created / published1840
Original scan3,254 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference118_Occupational_portrait_o_1840

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