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[Unidentified man, friend of Clara Barton, head-and-shoulders portrait, full face] – Vintage Photo Print

[Unidentified man, friend of Clara Barton, head-and-shoulders portrait, full face], [between 1840 and 1860] — historic photograph
[Unidentified man, friend of Clara Barton, head-and-shoulders portrait, full face], [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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Measuring a sixth plate, the smallest common daguerreotype size, this head-and-shoulders portrait shows an unidentified man facing the camera squarely, with color hand-applied to the cheeks and lips. The record names him only as a friend of Clara Barton, and the picture survives among her papers at the Library of Congress, transferred there in 1959. Dating from between 1840 and 1860, when daguerreotypes were the dominant photographic process, it reflects the period's taste for small, intimate likenesses kept in hinged cases.

Created / published[between 1840 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : sixth plate daguerreotype, hand-colored.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860.
NotesPhotographer unidentified. Case: variant of Rinhart 123. Accompanying label: Unidentified friend of C. B. Transfer; Manuscript Division; 1959. Forms part of: Clara Barton Papers, 1834-1918 (Library of Congress). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,257 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference411_Unidentified_man_friend_1840

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