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[Mr. Simms, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the left] – Historic Photograph Print

[Mr. Simms, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the left], [between 1844 and 1860] — historic photograph
[Mr. Simms, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the left], [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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A window into the past: [Mr. Simms, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the left], preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Mr. Simms, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the left]

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A half-length portrait of a man identified as Mr. Simms, turned three-quarters to the left, this half plate daguerreotype is one of many such studio portraits from the 1840s and 1850s, and its record offers the sitter's name without further biography. It was made in Mathew Brady's studio at some point between 1844 and 1860, a period when Brady was building his reputation photographing public figures and ordinary Americans alike. Each daguerreotype is a unique image on silver-plated copper, so no other print of this exact portrait exists. The plate later passed through the U.S. War College and was transferred in 1920, and the number 121 scratched on its back may reflect how the plate was tracked.

Created / published[between 1844 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860.
NotesScratched on back of plate: 121. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920. (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,280 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference274_Mr_Simms_halflength_por_1844

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