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[Unidentified woman] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[Unidentified woman], [between 1844 and 1860] — historic photograph
[Unidentified woman], [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 small sixth-plate daguerreotype, this portrait of an unidentified woman carries a pencil-scratched number, 213, on its back, a trace of the cataloging that followed its path into the Library of Congress. Its gold toning, applied after development, deepened the silver image and gave it a warmer cast while also helping protect the delicate surface. The plate was made in the studio of Mathew Brady, whose New York and Washington operation was among the most prominent of the era, and it was transferred from the U.S. War College in 1920. Daguerreotypes like this were popular from the mid-1840s through the 1850s, when a sitter could own a single, mirror-like portrait.

Created / published[between 1844 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : sixth plate daguerreotype, gold toned.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860.
NotesScratched on back of plate: 213. 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 scan3,329 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference489_Unidentified_woman_1844

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