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[Benjamin Perley Poore, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right] – Historic Photograph Print

[Benjamin Perley Poore, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right], [ca. 1850] — historic photograph
[Benjamin Perley Poore, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right], [ca. 1850]. 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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Few daguerreotypes of working newspapermen from this period survive with their sitters named, and this quarter-plate portrait shows Benjamin Perley Poore (1820-1887), who became one of Washington's best-known journalists. He reported from the capital for several newspapers and later wrote memoirs of its political life, so the portrait captures a man who would come to chronicle the city's public figures. The photographer is unidentified, but the image's date of about 1850 places it in the early years of the daguerreotype, when the process was still expensive and portraits were often made for personal keepsakes.

Created / published[ca. 1850]
Medium1 photograph : quarter plate daguerreotype.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860.
NotesPhotographer unidentified. Case: variant of Rinhart 124. Accompanying note: Ben Perley Poore. Purchase; 1995; (DLC/PP-1995:089). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsPoore, Benjamin Perley,--1820-1887.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,238 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference155_Benjamin_Perley_Poore_h_1850

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