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[Walter Restored Jones, half-length portrait, nearly in profile to left] – Vintage Photo Print

[Walter Restored Jones, half-length portrait, nearly in profile to left], [between 1844 and 1855] — historic photograph
[Walter Restored Jones, half-length portrait, nearly in profile to left], [between 1844 and 1855]. 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 window into the past: [Walter Restored Jones, half-length portrait, nearly in profile to 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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[Walter Restored Jones, half-length portrait, nearly in profile to left]

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A nearly profile, half-length pose sets this half-plate daguerreotype apart, and the catalog identifies the sitter as Walter Restored Jones, who lived from 1793 to 1855, though alternate spellings and a Washington connection also appear in the notes. The plate was made in Mathew Brady's studio sometime between 1844 and 1855, when gold toning was a common way to deepen the image and strengthen the silvered surface. Scratched numbers and a partly legible inscription on the back, including a 1920 notation mentioning the U.S. War College, show the plate passed through later hands before reaching the Library of Congress.

Created / published[between 1844 and 1855]
Medium1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype, gold toned.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860.
NotesAlternative identifications: Walter Reston Jones, d. 1855; Walter Jones of Washington; Walter James. Scratched on back of plate: 31; [illegible inscription] Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920. (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.
SubjectsJones, Walter Restored,--1793-1855.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,191 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference537_Walter_Restored_Jones_h_1844

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