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[Ethan Allen Hitchcock, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front, in military uniform] – Antique Photo Print

[Ethan Allen Hitchcock, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front, in military uniform], [1851] — historic photograph
[Ethan Allen Hitchcock, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front, in military uniform], [1851]. 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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Hand-colored, this quarter-plate daguerreotype shows Ethan Allen Hitchcock (1798–1870) in uniform, facing the camera. Hitchcock was a career U.S. Army officer and a grandson of Ethan Allen, the Revolutionary War leader of the Green Mountain Boys. The engraved mark on the plate identifies T. M. Easterly, a daguerreotypist in St. Louis, Missouri, as the maker, and the portrait is dated 1851. Hand-coloring added tints to the silvered surface, a practice that made these small portraits look more lifelike.

Created / published[1851]
Medium1 photograph : quarter plate daguerreotype, hand-colored.
GenrePortrait photographs 1850-1860.Daguerreotypes 1850-1860.
NotesEngraved on face of plate: T. M. Easterly, daguerrean, St. Louis, Mo. Case: Rinhart 131. Source unknown. Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsHitchcock, Ethan Allen,--1798-1870. Military personnel--1850-1860.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,263 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference584_Ethan_Allen_Hitchcock_h_1851

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