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[Sam Houston, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the left, in civilian dress, clean shaven] – Vintage Photo Print

[Sam Houston, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the left, in civilian dress, clean shaven], [between 1848 and 1850] — historic photograph
[Sam Houston, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the left, in civilian dress, clean shaven], [between 1848 and 1850]. 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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Sam Houston sits in civilian dress, clean shaven and turned three-quarters to the left, in this half-plate daguerreotype whose image has been warmed by gold toning. The plate dates from about 1848 to 1850, when Houston was serving as a United States senator from Texas, a post that followed his leadership of Texan forces at San Jacinto in 1836 and his service as president of the Republic of Texas. The record credits Mathew Brady's studio, and the identification rests on an inscription scratched on the back of the plate and on a Konrad lithograph in Huber's 1856 *History of Texas*.

Created / published[between 1848 and 1850]
Medium1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype, gold toned.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1850.Daguerreotypes 1840-1850.
NotesScratched on back of plate: 233; Sam Houston, Texas. Hallmark: Rinhart 46. Identification from lithograph by Konrad in Huber, History of Texas, 1856, v. 2, frontis. Facing the light / H. Pfister. Washington : Smithsonian Institution press, 1978, p. 327. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.
SubjectsHouston, Sam,--1793-1863.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan957 × 1,200 px · prints to 3 × 4 in at 300 dpi
Reference301_Sam_Houston_halflength_1848

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