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[Tom Thumb, full-length portrait, facing front, standing on table with tablecloth] – Vintage Photo Print

[Tom Thumb, full-length portrait, facing front, standing on table with tablecloth], [between 1844 and 1860] — historic photograph
[Tom Thumb, full-length portrait, facing front, standing on table with tablecloth], [between 1844 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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This rare historic photograph captures [Tom Thumb, full-length portrait, facing front, standing on table with tablecloth] in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Tom Thumb, the stage name of Charles Sherwood Stratton, stands full length on a table draped with a cloth, a pose that suits a performer who was barely over two feet tall as an adult. The plate is a half plate daguerreotype, gold toned to warm its silvery image, and it was made in Mathew Brady's New York studio sometime between 1844 and 1860. Stratton was promoted by P. T. Barnum from 1842 onward, and Brady photographed him during the years when his celebrity was at its height. Today the plate survives as part of the Library of Congress daguerreotype collection.

Created / published[between 1844 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype, gold toned.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860.
NotesScratched on face of plate: 152. Scratched on back of plate: 82. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio. Exhibited: American Treasures of the Library of Congress. Washington, D.C., 2003-2004.
SubjectsThumb, Tom,--1838-1883.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,204 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
Reference324_Tom_Thumb_fulllength_po_1844

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