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[Zachary Taylor, half-length portrait, head in profile to the right] – Historic Photograph Print

[Zachary Taylor, half-length portrait, head in profile to the right], [between 1844 and 1849] — historic photograph
[Zachary Taylor, half-length portrait, head in profile to the right], [between 1844 and 1849]. 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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Taken in profile with the head turned to the right, this half-length daguerreotype shows Zachary Taylor before he became president. Mathew Brady's studio produced the plate sometime between 1844 and 1849, when Taylor was rising to fame as a general in the Mexican-American War, a reputation that carried him to the White House in 1849. The silvery image has been gold toned, a step that added warmth and helped stabilize the delicate surface. Faint numbers scratched into the face and back of the plate show it was marked during its life as an object, a detail later catalogers recorded.

Created / published[between 1844 and 1849]
Medium1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype, gold toned.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1850.Daguerreotypes 1840-1850.
NotesScratched on face of plate: 87 [superscribed over] Sil[as?]; Silas [illegible] Scratched on back of plate: 277. Hallmark: [4]OM? Facing the light / H. Pfister. Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1978, p. 350. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920. (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.
SubjectsTaylor, Zachary,--1784-1850.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,173 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
Reference558_Zachary_Taylor_halfleng_1844

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