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[Josiah Johnson Hawes, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right] – Vintage Photo Print

[Josiah Johnson Hawes, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right], [between 1850 and 1854] — historic photograph
[Josiah Johnson Hawes, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right], [between 1850 and 1854]. 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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Step back in time with [Josiah Johnson Hawes, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right], a historic photograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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[Josiah Johnson Hawes, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right]

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Turned to the right in this quarter-plate daguerreotype, the sitter is named in pencil on the back as Josiah Johnson Hawes, though the record only suggests it may be a self-portrait. Hawes (1808–1901) ran a Boston studio with Albert Sands Southworth, and the partnership was among the most admired American portrait operations of the 1840s and 1850s, prized for sharp detail and careful lighting. The hallmark on the plate dates it to between 1850 and 1854, when the daguerreotype was still the leading form of portrait photography.

Created / published[between 1850 and 1854]
Medium1 photograph : quarter-plate daguerreotype.
NotesHallmark: Rinhart 46c. Date based on hallmark. Label attached to cover glass: 10." Written in pencil on back of plate: J.J. Hawes. Possibly a self-portrait. Provenance: probably purchased by Marian Carson in 1934 from Holman's Print Shop
SubjectsHawes, Josiah Johnson,--1808-1901.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,000 × 5,000 px · prints to 13 × 17 in at 300 dpi
Reference256_Josiah_Johnson_Hawes_he_1850

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