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[William L. Dayton, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the left] – Historic Photograph Print

[William L. Dayton, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the left], [between 1844 and 1860] — historic photograph
[William L. Dayton, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the left], [between 1844 and 1860]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive 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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Shown half-length and turned three-quarters to the left, the sitter is William L. Dayton, a New Jersey lawyer and politician. Dayton served as a United States senator from New Jersey and, in 1856, ran as the Republican vice-presidential candidate alongside John C. Frémont. The gold toning gives the plate its warm, softened tones, and it was produced in Mathew Brady's studio, one of the best-known portrait operations of the 1840s and 1850s. The identification comes from a matching engraving by J.C. Buttre, a common way for cataloguers to name sitters whose plates carry no inscription.

Created / published[between 1844 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype, gold toned.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860.
NotesScratched on back of plate: 108; Dayton, William L. Identification from engraving by J.C. Buttre. Hallmark: [asterisk] Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.
SubjectsDayton, William L. (William Lewis),--1807-1864.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,271 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-186344

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