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[A. Oakey Hall, half-length portrait, three-quarters to right, eyes front] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[A. Oakey Hall, half-length portrait, three-quarters to right, eyes front], [between 1844 and 1860] — historic photograph
[A. Oakey Hall, half-length portrait, three-quarters to right, eyes front], [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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Abraham Oakey Hall, the New York lawyer who later served as the city's mayor during the Tweed era, sat for this half-plate daguerreotype in the 1840s or 1850s, when the medium was the leading form of portrait photography. The identification rests on a comparison with an 1883 engraving of a later Sarony photograph, not on a label from the time, and the name is scratched on the back of the plate. The image was made at Mathew Brady's studio, and its gold toning gives the silvery surface a warmer cast.

Created / published[between 1844 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype, gold toned.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860.
NotesIdentification from engraving of a later photograph by Sarony in Daily graphic, March 31, 1883, p. 221. Scratched on back of plate: 109; Oakey Hall. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.
SubjectsHall, A. Oakey (Abraham Oakey),--1826-1898.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,295 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference137_A_Oakey_Hall_halflength_1844

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