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Seated man in plaid coat and bow tie, early photographic portrait – Historic Photograph Print

Seated man in plaid coat and bow tie, early photographic portrait, 1844 — historic photograph
Seated man in plaid coat and bow tie, early photographic portrait, 1844. Historic photograph from the Daguerreotypes & Early Photography collection.

(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 Seated man in plaid coat and bow tie, early photographic portrait in remarkable detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.

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Seated man in plaid coat and bow tie, early photographic portrait

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An 1844 portrait of a seated man in a plaid coat and bow tie places this piece near the very beginning of photography, when a single exposure could take minutes and the sitter had to hold still in bright light. Daguerreotypes like this one were made on silvered copper plates, so the image is a unique object rather than a print from a negative, and it shows the sharp detail and mirror-like surface that amazed early viewers. Plaid was a fashionable pattern for men's outerwear at the time, and the bow tie and carefully arranged clothing tell us the sitter dressed up for the occasion. Portraits of this kind were expensive and novel, so they offer a direct look at how ordinary people presented themselves in the 1840s.

Created / published1844
Original scan3,258 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference375_Unidentified_man_about_1844

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