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[Horace Mann, head-and-shoulders portrait, three-quarters to right] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[Horace Mann, head-and-shoulders portrait, three-quarters to right], [between 1844 and 1859] — historic photograph
[Horace Mann, head-and-shoulders portrait, three-quarters to right], [between 1844 and 1859]. 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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Horace Mann, the Massachusetts educator who championed public common schools, sits head and shoulders in this half-plate daguerreotype, turned three-quarters to the right, with its gold toning still giving the silver surface a warm cast. Mann led the state board of education in the 1830s and 1840s and later served as president of Antioch College in Ohio, where he died in 1859. The plate is credited to Mathew Brady's studio, and an inscription scratched on its back names the sitter, a detail that helps confirm the identification. The image was transferred to the U.S. War College in 1920 before entering the Library of Congress collection.

Created / published[between 1844 and 1859]
Medium1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype, gold toned.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860.
NotesIdentification from engraving by J.C. Buttre in Barnard's Educational biography, 1859, p. 365. Scratched on back of plate: 106; Hon. Horace Mann. Hallmark: Phoenix 40. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920. (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.
SubjectsMann, Horace,--1796-1859.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,205 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
Reference213_Horace_Mann_headandshou_1844

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