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[Cassius Marcellus Clay, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the right] – Antique Photo Print

[Cassius Marcellus Clay, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the right], [between 1844 and 1860] — historic photograph
[Cassius Marcellus Clay, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the right], [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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Step back in time with [Cassius Marcellus Clay, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the right], a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Someone scratched Cassius M. Clay's name into the back of this plate, which gives the portrait a firm identity that many daguerreotypes lack. Clay was a Kentucky abolitionist and newspaper editor whose Lexington paper, *The True American*, drew threats and was attacked by a mob in 1845, and he stayed politically outspoken for decades afterward. The sitter appears half-length, turned three-quarters to the right, and the gold toning warms the silvery surface. The record suggests the studio of Southworth and Hawes or Mathew Brady, though the attribution remains uncertain.

Created / published[between 1844 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype, gold toned.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860.
NotesScratched on back of plate: Cassius M. Clay. Column in background indicates could possibly be by Southworth and Hawes. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.
SubjectsClay, Cassius Marcellus,--1810-1903.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,193 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
Reference93_Cassius_Marcellus_Clay_1844

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