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[William Y. McAllister, half-length, seated] – Vintage Wall Art

[William Y. McAllister, half-length, seated], [between 1850 and 1860] — historic photograph
[William Y. McAllister, half-length, seated], [between 1850 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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[William Y. McAllister, half-length, seated]

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This half-length portrait shows William Young McAllister, who lived from 1812 to 1896, seated and captured as a stereoscopic daguerreotype. Made sometime between 1850 and 1860, it uses a pair of nearly identical exposures that, when viewed through a stereoscope, produce a single image with apparent depth. That format was especially popular in the 1850s, when families and collectors filled parlors with such views. The image preserves the sharp, mirror-like surface and fine detail characteristic of the daguerreotype process, which was then only about two decades old.

Created / published[between 1850 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : stereoscopic daguerreotype.
GenreDaguerreotypes 1850-1860.Stereographs 1850-1860.Portrait photographs 1850-1860.
NotesPurchase; Marian S. Carson; 1997; (DLC/PP-1997:105). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection (Library of Congress)
SubjectsMcAllister, W. Y. (William Young),--1812-1896.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,306 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
Reference721_William_Y_McAllister_ha_1850

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