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[Nathaniel Ruggles Childs and Albert Childs, half-length portrait, facing front] – Vintage Photo Print

[Nathaniel Ruggles Childs and Albert Childs, half-length portrait, facing front], [1842 Nov. 25] — historic photograph
[Nathaniel Ruggles Childs and Albert Childs, half-length portrait, facing front], [1842 Nov. 25]. 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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Two men, Nathaniel Ruggles Childs, born in 1814, and Albert Childs, born in 1821, sit side by side in this half-length portrait, both facing the camera. The plate is a quarter-plate daguerreotype dated November 25, 1842, and its hallmark refers to Plumbe's patent of October 22, 1842. A note written on the back of the wooden frame gives the sitters' names and the same date, which helps tie this image to a specific sitting in the early years of American photography. Daguerreotypes like this one were made on silvered copper and sealed under glass, so the image shows its finest detail, and its mirror-like surface shifts with the light.

Created / published[1842 Nov. 25]
Medium1 photograph : approximate quarter plate daguerreotype.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1850.Group portraits 1840-1850.Daguerreotypes 1840-1850.
NotesHallmark: Plumbe's patent, Oct. 22, 1842. Matted in wooden frame. Written on back of frame: H.C. Nov. 25, 1842. Nathaniel Ruggles & Albert Childs. Purchase; 1970; (DLC/PP-1970:279). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsChilds, Albert,--b. 1821. Childs, Nathaniel Ruggles,--b. 1814.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,317 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
Reference85_Nathaniel_Ruggles_Child_1842

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