[Unidentified military officer, three-quarter length portrait, facing front, standing, in uniform, with sword] – Vintage Wall Art
![[Unidentified military officer, three-quarter length portrait, facing front, standing, in uniform, with sword], [between 1844 and 1860] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/74/74a0781c666e-L.webp)
(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 half plate daguerreotype, toned with gold, shows a standing officer in uniform, posed three-quarter length and holding a sword. The record leaves the sitter unidentified, though it gives an alternative name, Col. Thomas Staniford, and a number scratched on the back of the plate, 382, hints at how such plates were filed. The plate came from Mathew Brady's studio, which made many portraits of military men in the decades before the Civil War, and it passed to the U.S. War College in 1920 before entering the Library of Congress. Gold toning deepened the image's tones and helped protect its surface.
| Created / published | [between 1844 and 1860] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype, gold toned. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860. |
| Notes | Alternative identification: Col. Thomas Staniford (cat. 5). Scratched on back of plate: 382. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920. (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio. |
| Subjects | Military officers--1840-1860. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,289 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 484_Unidentified_military_o_1844 |
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