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[John McAllister, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing front with arm resting on table with tablecloth] – Vintage Photo Print

[John McAllister, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing front with arm resting on table with tablecloth], [ca. 1852] — historic photograph
[John McAllister, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing front with arm resting on table with tablecloth], [ca. 1852]. 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: [John McAllister, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing front with arm resting on table with tablecloth], preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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[John McAllister, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing front with arm resting on table with tablecloth]

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John McAllister, whose record gives his life span as 1786 to 1877, sits here at about sixty-six, three-quarter length and facing the camera with one arm resting on a draped table. That settled pose suited early 1850s studio portraits, when sitters had to hold still through long exposures. This example is a stereoscopic daguerreotype, made with a twin-lens camera so that two slightly offset views could be seen as one three-dimensional image in a viewer. Each daguerreotype is a unique positive on silvered copper, so this plate exists only as this single object.

Created / published[ca. 1852]
Medium1 photograph : stereoscopic daguerreotype.
GenreDaguerreotypes 1850-1860.Stereographs 1850-1860.Portrait photographs 1850-1860.
NotesPurchase; Marian S. Carson; 1997; (DLC/PP-1997:105). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection (Library of Congress)
SubjectsMcAllister, John,--1786-1877.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,317 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
Reference604_John_McAllister_threequ_1852

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