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Portrait of a balding man with bow tie – Antique Photo Print

Portrait of a balding man with bow tie, 1844 — historic photograph
Portrait of a balding man with bow tie, 1844. Historic photograph from the Daguerreotypes & Early Photography collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This rare historic photograph captures Portrait of a balding man with bow tie in remarkable detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.

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Portrait of a balding man with bow tie

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A balding man in a bow tie sits for this portrait, dated 1844, which places it within the first years of the daguerreotype's public life. Daguerreotypes were made on silvered copper plates, each one a single unique image rather than a print that could be copied, so a sitter of this period usually held still for a long exposure, often several minutes in bright light. The bow tie and the close-cropped, receding hairline are the sort of details that let a viewer read the man's dress and grooming as a snapshot of mid-nineteenth-century fashion. Because the process reversed left and right and was viewed at an angle to catch the light, the surface still looks like a mirror until it is tilted.

Created / published1844
Original scan1,177 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
Reference16_George_Edmund_Badger_ha_1844

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