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[George Edmund Badger, half-length portrait, facing three-quarters to left] – Vintage Photo Print

[George Edmund Badger, half-length portrait, facing three-quarters to left], [between 1844 and 1860] — historic photograph
[George Edmund Badger, half-length portrait, facing three-quarters to left], [between 1844 and 1860]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive 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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This rare historic photograph captures [George Edmund Badger, half-length portrait, facing three-quarters to left] in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[George Edmund Badger, half-length portrait, facing three-quarters to left]

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This half-length daguerreotype shows George Edmund Badger, a North Carolina lawyer and politician who later served as Secretary of the Navy under President Millard Fillmore, turned three-quarters to the left. The plate was made in Mathew Brady's New York studio sometime between 1844 and 1860, when the daguerreotype was the leading portrait process and Brady was building his reputation on portraits of public men. Its gold toning and the hallmark on the plate are worth noticing, as is the number scratched on the back, which suggests how studios tracked their work. The image came to the Library of Congress in 1920 by transfer from the U.S. War College.

Created / published[between 1844 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype, gold toned.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860.
NotesHallmark: 40M. Scratched on back of plate: 107. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.
SubjectsBadger, George Edmund,--1795-1866.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,301 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-186343

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