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[Unidentified Army officer, possibly Brigadier General Thomas Lawson, half-length portrait, facing front, in uniform with arms crossed] – Vintage Wall Art

[Unidentified Army officer, possibly Brigadier General Thomas Lawson, half-length portrait, facing front, in uniform with arms crossed], [between 1845 and 1850] — historic photograph
[Unidentified Army officer, possibly Brigadier General Thomas Lawson, half-length portrait, facing front, in uniform with arms crossed], [between 1845 and 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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[Unidentified Army officer, possibly Brigadier General Thomas Lawson, half-length portrait, facing front, in uniform with arms crossed]

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Here a man in Army uniform sits for the camera with his arms folded, and the record only tentatively names him as Thomas Lawson, a career Army officer who lived from about 1781 to 1861. The portrait is a quarter-plate daguerreotype, a mirror-bright silver image on copper that was made between 1845 and 1850, when the process was the leading form of photographic portraiture in America. Its scroll-patterned case, a gift to the Library of Congress in 1998, is part of the record. Because the sitter's identity is unconfirmed, the image is most useful as a document of how officers were posed and presented in this period.

Created / published[between 1845 and 1850]
Medium1 photograph : quarter-plate daguerreotype.
GenreDaguerreotypes 1850-1860.Portrait photographs 1850-1860.
Notescase: back - scroll design. Label adhered to case: 192". Gift; Wm. B. Becker; 1998; (DLC/PP-1999:003). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress)."
SubjectsLawson, Thomas,--1781?-1861.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,716 × 4,683 px · prints to 12 × 16 in at 300 dpi
Reference635_Unidentified_Army_offic_1845

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