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[John Sherman, head-and-shoulders portrait, full face] – Antique Photo Print

[John Sherman, head-and-shoulders portrait, full face], [between 1840 and 1860] — historic photograph
[John Sherman, head-and-shoulders portrait, full face], [between 1840 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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A half-plate daguerreotype shows John Sherman (1823-1900) head and shoulders, facing the camera full on. The sitting falls between 1840 and 1860, when he was roughly 17 to 37, during the years this process was most popular. Daguerreotypes were made on silvered copper plates, so the image shows clearly only at certain angles and scratches easily, which is why sitters often kept them in small cases. The photographer is unidentified, but the oval frame design on the case back reflects the period's taste for compact keepsake portraits, which gave many ordinary people their first affordable likeness of themselves or their families.

Created / published[between 1840 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860.
NotesPhotographer unidentified. Case: back only, oval frame design. Source unknown. Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsSherman, John,--1823-1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,273 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference246_John_Sherman_headandsho_1840

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