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[Unidentified man, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right, seated in chair] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[Unidentified man, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right, seated in chair], [between 1858 and 1860] — historic photograph
[Unidentified man, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right, seated in chair], [between 1858 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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Little is known about the sitter in this small sixth-plate daguerreotype, which shows an unidentified man seated and turned to his right in a head-and-shoulders pose. The brass mat is stamped with the name of Ball & Thomas, a studio at 120 West Fourth Street in Cincinnati, Ohio, which places the portrait in that river city around 1858 to 1860. Like most daguerreotypes of the period, it is a unique image on a silvered copper plate, and its mirror-like surface shows the picture clearly only at certain angles. Cincinnati studios produced many such keepsakes for families able to afford a portrait.

Created / published[between 1858 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : sixth-plate daguerreotype.
GenreDaguerreotypes 1850-1860.Portrait photographs 1850-1860.
NotesCase: Rinhart 93. Hallmark: Rinhart 10. Barboza number: 6019.033. Stamped on brass mat: Ball & Thomas, 120 W 4th St. Cin. O. Purchase; Anthony Barboza; 1999; (DLC/PP-1999:022). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,737 × 4,657 px · prints to 12 × 16 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-222346

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