[Unidentified person in theatrical costume, full-length portrait, facing front, standing] – Historic Photo Reproduction
![[Unidentified person in theatrical costume, full-length portrait, facing front, standing], [between 1844 and 1860] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/24/24b07107b8fb-L.webp)
(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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[Unidentified person in theatrical costume, full-length portrait, facing front, standing]
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Dressed in stage costume and shown full length, facing the camera, this half plate daguerreotype stands apart from the usual head-and-shoulders studio portrait. Mathew Brady's studio is credited with the plate, which dates to between 1844 and 1860, when daguerreotypes were the leading portrait process in America and theater drew large audiences in cities like New York. Full-length figures needed long exposures, so the sitter had to hold still in costume for some time. The record leaves the sitter unidentified, though it offers the alternative name Ornelius Ward, described as an actress.
| Created / published | [between 1844 and 1860] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860. |
| Notes | Alternative identification: Ornelius Ward, actress (cat. 5). Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920. (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,280 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 485_Unidentified_person_in_1844 |
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