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[Cornelius Vanderbilt, head-and-shoulders portrait, slightly to left, with side whiskers] – Antique Photo Print

[Cornelius Vanderbilt, head-and-shoulders portrait, slightly to left, with side whiskers], [between 1844 and 1860] — historic photograph
[Cornelius Vanderbilt, head-and-shoulders portrait, slightly to left, with side whiskers], [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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Two numbers are scratched into this half-plate daguerreotype, 159 on the face and 58 on the back, and the back also bears the sitter's name. The portrait shows Cornelius Vanderbilt, the shipping and railroad magnate, head and shoulders and turned slightly to the left, with the side whiskers he wore. Mathew Brady's studio made the plate sometime between 1844 and 1860, when daguerreotypes were the dominant form of photographic portraiture and gold toning was used to deepen the image and protect its silver surface. The plate later passed through the U.S. War College and reached the Library of Congress in 1920.

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: 159. Scratched on back of plate: 58; Cornelius Vanderbilt. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920. (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.
SubjectsVanderbilt, Cornelius,--1794-1877.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,138 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
Reference167_Cornelius_Vanderbilt_he_1844

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