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[James Curtis Booth, half-length portrait, seated with arm resting on table] – Antique Photo Print

[James Curtis Booth, half-length portrait, seated with arm resting on table], [ca. 1845] — historic photograph
[James Curtis Booth, half-length portrait, seated with arm resting on table], [ca. 1845]. 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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Booth sits half-length with one arm resting on a table, a pose that helped early daguerreotype sitters hold still through exposures that could run several seconds. A pencilled note inside the case identifies him as "Prof. Jas. C. Booth" and credits the portrait to Mayall, though cataloguers treat that attribution as only a possibility. The small sixth-plate size and the floral scroll on the case were typical of the keepsakes sold in the 1840s, when the daguerreotype was the newest way to own a likeness.

Created / published[ca. 1845]
Medium1 photograph : sixth plate daguerreotype.
GenreDaguerreotypes 1840-1850.Portrait photographs 1840-1850.
NotesPossibly by John Jabez Edwin Mayall. Case: floral scroll theme. Pencilled inscription inside the case under the image: Prof. Jas. C. Booth, taken by Mayall. Purchase; Marian S. Carson; 1996; (DLC/PP-1996:087.23). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection (Library of Congress)
SubjectsBooth, James Curtis,--1810-1888.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,737 × 4,652 px · prints to 12 × 16 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-222339

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