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[Henry J. Raymond, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the right] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[Henry J. Raymond, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the right], [between 1844 and 1856] — historic photograph
[Henry J. Raymond, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the right], [between 1844 and 1856]. 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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Turned three-quarters to the right, the sitter in this half-plate daguerreotype is identified as Henry J. Raymond, the journalist who co-founded the New York Times in 1851. That identification rests on a published reproduction of the plate, and the back carries a scratched "Raymer," with an alternative identification of Raymer from Turkey noted in the record, so it is worth reading with some caution. The portrait was produced by Mathew Brady's studio, which made many likenesses of New York sitters in the 1840s and 1850s, when the daguerreotype was the leading portrait process. Its mirror-like silver surface and fine detail are typical of the medium.

Created / published[between 1844 and 1856]
Medium1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860.
NotesScratched on back of plate: 14; Raymer. Identification from reproduction of a daguerreotype in Brown, Raymond of the Times. Alternative identification: Raymer from Turkey. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio. Exhibit loan 4116-L.
SubjectsRaymond, Henry J. (Henry Jarvis)--1820-1869.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,273 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference204_Henry_J_Raymond_halflen_1844

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