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[Adams family portrait, with man, woman, and baby girl] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[Adams family portrait, with man, woman, and baby girl], [1846] — historic photograph
[Adams family portrait, with man, woman, and baby girl], [1846]. 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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A quarter-plate daguerreotype from 1846 shows a family of three: Henry Joseph Adams, his wife Abigail Ridley Gibson Adams, and their baby daughter, Anna Gibson Adams, who was born in 1845. Keeping an infant still through the long exposures of the 1840s was difficult, which makes this group portrait unusual for its time. The photographer is unidentified, but the plate's hallmark and the style of its case are cataloged by collectors, which helps place it among mid-century American makers. The plate belongs to the John Adams Kingsbury Papers and entered the Library of Congress in 1972.

Created / published[1846]
Medium1 photograph : quarter plate daguerreotype.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1850.Group portraits 1840-1850.Daguerreotypes 1840-1850.
NotesPhotographer unidentified. Hallmark: Rinhart 31a. Case: variant of Rinhart 140. Transfer; Manuscript Division; 1972; (DLC/PP-1972:133). Forms part of: John Adams Kingsbury Papers, 1840-1960 (Library of Congress). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsAdams, Henry Joseph. Adams, Abigail Ridley Gibson. Kingsbury, Anna Gibson Adams,--1845-1884
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,287 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference3_Adams_family_portrait_w_1846

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