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[John Y. Mason, half-length portrait, nearly facing front] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[John Y. Mason, half-length portrait, nearly facing front], [between 1844 and 1860] — historic photograph
[John Y. Mason, half-length portrait, nearly facing front], [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 Virginia-born statesman sits nearly facing the lens in this half-length study of John Y. Mason. Mason served as attorney general and then secretary of the navy under President John Tyler, and he later represented the United States as minister to France from 1853 until his death in Paris in 1859. The plate is a half-plate daguerreotype from Mathew Brady's studio, made sometime between 1844 and 1860, and its gold toning warms the silver image. Mason's name is scratched into the back of the plate, and the record notes that the picture was transferred to the U.S. War College in 1920.

Created / published[between 1844 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype, gold toned.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860.
NotesIdentification from picture in The Green Bag, 1898, page 115. Scratched on back of plate: 105; Jno. Y. Mason. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920. (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.
SubjectsMason, John Y. (John Young),--1799-1859.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,219 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
Reference250_John_Y_Mason_halflength_1844

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