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[Truman Smith, half-length portrait, facing left, wearing spectacles] – Antique Photo Print

[Truman Smith, half-length portrait, facing left, wearing spectacles], [between 1844 and 1860] — historic photograph
[Truman Smith, half-length portrait, facing left, wearing spectacles], [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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[Truman Smith, half-length portrait, facing left, wearing spectacles]

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Truman Smith, the Connecticut-born congressman and Whig politician, sits in this half-length daguerreotype turned to the left, wearing spectacles. The plate is one of the many portraits made in Mathew Brady's studio during the 1840s and 1850s, when the daguerreotype was the leading method of photographic portraiture in America. Its identification rests on a frontispiece published in the American Whig Review in November 1852, which shows how portraits like this one were reproduced for a wider reading public. The image was later copied onto a transfer and preserved in the Library of Congress daguerreotype collection.

Created / published[between 1844 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : half-plate daguerreotype.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860.
NotesTransfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Identification from American Whig Review, Nov. 1852, frontispiece. Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.
SubjectsSmith, Truman,--1791-1884.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,289 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference325_Truman_Smith_halflength_1844

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