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Unidentified woman, seated three-quarter length daguerreotype portrait – Historic Photograph Print

Unidentified woman, seated three-quarter length daguerreotype portrait, 1844 — historic photograph
Unidentified woman, seated three-quarter length daguerreotype portrait, 1844. 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Unidentified woman, seated three-quarter length daguerreotype portrait. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.

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Unidentified woman, seated three-quarter length daguerreotype portrait

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A seated, three-quarter length portrait of an unidentified woman, dated 1844, places this daguerreotype among the earliest years of commercial photography, only a few years after Louis Daguerre announced his process in 1839. Sitters of this period often had to hold still for long exposures, and the sharp, mirror-like silver surface of a daguerreotype captures fine detail in dress and posture that later processes would blur or lose. Because the sitter is unnamed, the image rests on its composition and materials rather than a known story, which makes it a useful record of how middle-class portraiture looked in the mid-1840s.

Created / published1844
Original scan3,308 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference526_Unidentified_woman_thre_1844

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