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[Unidentified man with moustache, half-length portrait, full face] – Historic Photograph Print

[Unidentified man with moustache, half-length portrait, full face], [between 1840 and 1860] — historic photograph
[Unidentified man with moustache, half-length portrait, full face], [between 1840 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: [Unidentified man with moustache, half-length portrait, full face], preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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[Unidentified man with moustache, half-length portrait, full face]

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A half-length, full-face portrait of an unidentified man with a moustache, this image is a sixth-plate daguerreotype, a small format that studios sold widely in the 1840s and 1850s. The photographer is unknown and the record does not name the sitter, so the picture is best read through its physical form: a silvered copper plate that reflects the viewer when tilted. It is held within the American Colonization Society Records at the Library of Congress. The society, founded in 1817, aimed to resettle Black Americans in Liberia, so the portrait reached the library through those papers.

Created / published[between 1840 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : sixth plate daguerreotype.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860.
NotesPhotographer unidentified. Transfer; Manuscript Division. Forms part of: American Colonization Society Records, 1792-1964 (Library of Congress). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). The American Colonization Society was organized in 1817 to resettle Afro-Americans in Liberia.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,304 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
Reference353_Unidentified_man_with_m_1840

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