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[David Rice Atchison, half-length portrait, facing three-quarters to left] – Vintage Photo Print

[David Rice Atchison, half-length portrait, facing three-quarters to left], [between 1844 and 1860] — historic photograph
[David Rice Atchison, half-length portrait, facing three-quarters to left], [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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[David Rice Atchison, half-length portrait, facing three-quarters to left]

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A handwritten note scratched into the back of this plate reads "Atchinson, Pres. of Senate," which points to David Rice Atchison, the Missouri senator who served as president pro tempore of the Senate in the late 1840s. He later became a footnote in American history for holding the presidency for a single day, March 4, 1849, because the inauguration of Zachary Taylor fell on a Sunday. The sitter appears in half-length, turned three-quarters to the left, and the record credits the image to Mathew Brady's studio, which made many portraits of national political figures in this period. The gold toning, applied after development, gives the silvery surface its warm tone and adds some durability.

Created / published[between 1844 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype, gold toned.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860.
NotesAlternative identification: Gen. Ambu (cat. 5). Scratched on back of plate: Atchinson, Pres. of Senate. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.
SubjectsAtchison, David Rice,--1807-1886.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,121 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
Reference15_David_Rice_Atchison_hal_1844

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