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[Benjamin family group portrait, posed around a column] – Vintage Wall Art

[Benjamin family group portrait, posed around a column], [between 1845 and 1858] — historic photograph
[Benjamin family group portrait, posed around a column], [between 1845 and 1858]. 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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Five members of the Benjamin family stand around a column in this hand-colored half-plate daguerreotype, made sometime between 1845 and 1858. The mat is stamped "Whitney, Roch. NY," and the sitters are identified from left to right as Cornelia Juliaette, Zina Hitchcock, Frances Antoinette, Samuel Clark, and Joanette Benjamin. Hand-coloring added tints to the otherwise silver-toned plate, and the column pose reflects the formal conventions of studio portraiture in that period. Frances Antoinette Benjamin later became the photographer Frances Benjamin Johnston, who donated the plate to the Library of Congress.

Created / published[between 1845 and 1858]
Medium1 photograph : half-plate daguerreotype, hand-colored.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1860.Group portraits 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860.
NotesFrom left to right: Cornelia Juliaette, Zina Hitchcock, Frances Antoinette, Samuel Clark, and Joanette. Case: Rinhart 9. Stamped on mat: Whitney, Roch. NY. Gift; Frances Benjamin Johnston. Forms part of: Frances Benjamin Johnston collection (Library of Congress). Published in: Eyes of the Nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and the curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York : Knopf, 1997. Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsBenjamin, Cornelia Juliaette,--b. 1839. Johnston, Frances Antoinette Benjamin. Benjamin, Joanette Clark,--1814 or 1815-1880. Benjamin, Samuel Clark,--b. 1834. Benjamin, Zina Hitchcock,--1807-1865.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,335 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
Reference39_Benjamin_family_group_p_1845

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