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[John Coffee Hays, 3/4-length portrait, seated in chair and facing left] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[John Coffee Hays, 3/4-length portrait, seated in chair and facing left], [ca. 1857] — historic photograph
[John Coffee Hays, 3/4-length portrait, seated in chair and facing left], [ca. 1857]. 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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A window into the past: [John Coffee Hays, 3/4-length portrait, seated in chair and facing left], preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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[John Coffee Hays, 3/4-length portrait, seated in chair and facing left]

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Once misidentified as a portrait of the financier Cyrus W. Field, this salted paper print actually shows John Coffee Hays, the Texas Ranger captain who later became a prominent figure in California. He sits in a three-quarter view, turned to the left. The Library of Congress attributes the photograph to Mathew Brady, based on a similar portrait at Harvard's Fogg Art Museum. Salted paper prints like this one, made in the 1850s, have softer, warmer tones than the silver-based images that followed.

Created / published[ca. 1857]
Medium1 photographic print :salted paper.
GenreSalted paper prints 1850-1860.
NotesAttribution to Mathew Brady based on similar portrait at Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University. Image formerly misidentified as being Cyrus W. Field. Transfer; LC MSS Peter Force Collection (DLC/PP-45474).
SubjectsHays, John Coffee,--1817-1883.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,231 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-155937

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