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[Charles Edwards Lester, half length portrait, facing left] – Antique Photo Print

[Charles Edwards Lester, half length portrait, facing left], [between 1848 and 1860] — historic photograph
[Charles Edwards Lester, half length portrait, facing left], [between 1848 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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[Charles Edwards Lester, half length portrait, facing left] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Charles Edwards Lester, half length portrait, facing left]

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Few daguerreotypes in this group carry the sitter's own name in pencil on the back, and this whole-plate portrait of Charles Edwards Lester does. Lester (1815-1890) was an American writer known for popular biographies and travel books, and the plate was made in Mathew Brady's New York studio sometime between 1848 and 1860. The half-length pose, turned to the left, is typical of the studio's formal portraits of that decade. The plate's maker's hallmark and the notation on its reverse help date the object and identify the sitter.

Created / published[between 1848 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : whole plate daguerreotype.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860.
NotesHallmark: Rinhart 44. Written on back of plate: C. E. Lester. Purchase; Alice H. Cox and Mary H. Evans; 1954. Forms part of: Brady-Handy collection (Library of Congress). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.
SubjectsLester, C. Edwards (Charles Edwards),--1815-1890.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,276 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference158_Charles_Edwards_Lester_1848

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