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[Samuel F. B. Morse, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front] – Historic Photograph Print

[Samuel F. B. Morse, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front], [between 1844 and 1860] — historic photograph
[Samuel F. B. Morse, head-and-shoulders portrait, 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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Samuel F. B. Morse, the painter who later developed the electric telegraph, sits for this half-plate daguerreotype, one of the portraits made at Mathew Brady's studio between 1844 and 1860. Morse was among the first Americans to take up the daguerreotype after its 1839 announcement, and he taught the process to Brady, who went on to become known for his photographs of Civil War soldiers. The plate is gold toned, which sharpens the image and adds a warm tint, and the numbers scratched on its face and back record its handling in collections, including a 1920 transfer to the Library of Congress.

Created / published[between 1844 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype, gold toned.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860.
NotesProduced by Mathew Brady's studio. Scratched on face of plate: 139. Scratched on back of plate: 15; 294 Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Exhibited: American Treasures of the Library of Congress. Washington, D.C., 2002.
SubjectsMorse, Samuel Finley Breese,--1791-1872.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,270 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference303_Samuel_F_B_Morse_headan_1844

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