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[Unidentified man with chin whiskers, half-length portrait, facing front, with arm resting on book] – Historic Photograph Print

[Unidentified man with chin whiskers, half-length portrait, facing front, with arm resting on book], [ca. 1855] — historic photograph
[Unidentified man with chin whiskers, half-length portrait, facing front, with arm resting on book], [ca. 1855]. 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 small sixth-plate daguerreotype, the format that was common for portraits in the 1850s, shows an unidentified man with chin whiskers posed half-length and facing forward, his arm resting on a book. The image is ca. 1855 and sits on a silvered copper plate that gives it a mirror-like sheen, so it reads best when tilted under light. The brass mat is stamped "F. Grice," and the case is cataloged under Rinhart 257, both useful clues for dating and identifying the object. The book-and-arm pose was a familiar convention of the period, often suggesting learning or respectability.

Created / published[ca. 1855]
Medium1 photograph : sixth-plate daguerreotype.
GenreDaguerreotypes 1850-1860.Portraits 1850-1860.
NotesCase: Rinhart 257. Stamped on brass mat: F. Grice. Barboza number: 6019.067. Purchase; Anthony Barboza; 1999; (DLC/PP-1999:022). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,057 × 5,000 px · prints to 14 × 17 in at 300 dpi
Reference646_Unidentified_man_with_c_1855

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