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[Aaron Vanderpoel, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the left, with side whiskers] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[Aaron Vanderpoel, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the left, with side whiskers], [between 1844 and 1860] — historic photograph
[Aaron Vanderpoel, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the left, with side whiskers], [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: [Aaron Vanderpoel, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the left, with side whiskers], 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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[Aaron Vanderpoel, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the left, with side whiskers]

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Aaron Vanderpoel, identified on the plate's back as a judge, sits in this half-length portrait turned three-quarters to the left, with full side whiskers framing his face. The image is a half-plate daguerreotype made in the Mathew Brady studio sometime between 1844 and 1860, when the process was the most popular way to sit for a likeness. Its gold toning, applied to the silvered copper plate, deepened the tones and protected the surface. The plate's back carries a handwritten notation and a record of transfer to the U.S. War College in 1920, before it entered the Library of Congress.

Created / published[between 1844 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype, gold toned.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860.
NotesScratched on back of plate: 160; Judge Vanderpool. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920. (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.
SubjectsVanderpoel, Aaron,--1799-1870.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,273 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference139_Aaron_Vanderpoel_halfle_1844

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