Elderly man with spectacles and white hair, portrait – Historic Photo Reproduction
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Elderly man with spectacles and white hair, portrait. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
Choose the framed print, ready to hang the day it arrives, or the unframed print for a frame of your own. A conversation-starting piece for home, office, or as a meaningful gift. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Since 2001, Snapshots of the Past has shipped historic prints to tens of thousands of customers around the world.
Elderly man with spectacles and white hair, portrait
Order a print
Thank you. Your order went through, and a receipt is on its way by email.
Secure checkout · SSL encryptedPowered by Stripe and PayPal
Free shipping in the lower 48 states. The checkout page shows the picture, size and price before you pay.
Few sitters from the 1840s left a record as direct as this unnamed man, whose white hair and wire-rimmed spectacles stand out in a silvered plate barely larger than a playing card. Daguerreotypes like this one were made by exposing a polished sheet of silver-plated copper to light, producing a single, mirror-like image that could not be duplicated. Portraits of older sitters were especially prized in 1844, since the long exposure times of the period demanded stillness and the process rewarded the deep lines and textures of age. Because the record gives no name, the picture is best read as a window onto everyday photographic portraiture of its time.
| Created / published | 1844 |
|---|---|
| Original scan | 1,155 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 408_Unidentified_man_about_1844 |
More from the Daguerreotypes & Early Photography collection
Snapshots of the Past helps heritage brands, museums, historians and storytellers tell stories with history: historic prints, image licensing and historical storytelling drawn from more than 25 years of research and curation.
