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[Walter Jones, three-quarter length portrait, three-quarters to the left] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[Walter Jones, three-quarter length portrait, three-quarters to the left], [between 1844 and 1860] — historic photograph
[Walter Jones, three-quarter length portrait, three-quarters to the left], [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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[Walter Jones, three-quarter length portrait, three-quarters to the left]

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Scratched into both the face and back of this half plate daguerreotype is the name Walter Jones, probably the Washington, D.C., man who lived from 1776 to 1861. The three-quarter length pose, turned to the left, is typical of studio portraits from the 1840s and 1850s. The plate was produced in Mathew Brady's studio, whose galleries drew many prominent public figures of the period. Because each daguerreotype is a unique image on a silvered copper plate, handwritten labels like these were often the only record of who sat for the camera.

Created / published[between 1844 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860.
NotesScratched on face of plate: 80; Walter Jones. Scratched on back of plate: 44; Walter Jones. Probably Walter Jones of Washington, D.C., 1776-1861. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920. (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,169 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
Reference536_Walter_Jones_threequart_1844

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