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[Unidentified man in Middle Eastern costume with arm around boy, full-length portrait] – Vintage Photo Print

[Unidentified man in Middle Eastern costume with arm around boy, full-length portrait], [between 1844 and 1860] — historic photograph
[Unidentified man in Middle Eastern costume with arm around boy, full-length portrait], [between 1844 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 full-length studio portrait of a man in Middle Eastern dress with his arm around a boy, this half-plate daguerreotype is gold toned, which sharpened its tones and helped protect the surface. Exotic costume was a popular prop in mid-century studios, where sitters often posed in borrowed garments from distant places. The plate was produced in the studio of Mathew Brady, whose New York and Washington galleries made many portraits of the era. Its scratched numbers and 1920 transfer from the U.S. War College suggest it passed through institutional hands before reaching the Library of Congress.

Created / published[between 1844 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype, gold toned.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1860.Group portraits 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860.
NotesScratched on face of plate: 30. Scratched on back of plate: 276. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,172 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
Reference351_Unidentified_man_in_Mid_1844

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