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[Levi Woodbury, half-length portrait, facing front, wearing judicial robes] – Historic Photograph Print

[Levi Woodbury, half-length portrait, facing front, wearing judicial robes], [ca. 1850] — historic photograph
[Levi Woodbury, half-length portrait, facing front, wearing judicial robes], [ca. 1850]. 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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Woodbury is shown in the black judicial robe he wore as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, a seat he held from 1845 until his death in 1851. Before the bench he had been governor of New Hampshire, a U.S. senator, and secretary of the navy and then secretary of the treasury under Presidents Jackson and Van Buren. This whole-plate daguerreotype, made around 1850, is a unique positive on a silvered copper plate, so it exists in only one copy. Its formal, front-facing pose reflects the dignified style that public men often chose for portraits of this period.

Created / published[ca. 1850]
Medium1 photograph : whole plate daguerreotype.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860.
NotesPurchase; Wm. Hallam Webber; 1996. (DLC/PP-1996:033). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Photographer unidentified.
SubjectsWoodbury, Levi,--1789-1851.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,275 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference258_Levi_Woodbury_halflengt_1850

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