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[James Buchanan, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front] – Vintage Photo Print

[James Buchanan, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front], [between 1844 and 1860] — historic photograph
[James Buchanan, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front], [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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A sixth-plate, gold-toned daguerreotype, this head-and-shoulders portrait shows James Buchanan facing the camera. The record credits Mathew Brady's studio and notes that the plate may be a copy, a common way to reproduce a sitter's likeness after the original sitting. Buchanan had served as a Pennsylvania senator, Secretary of State under James K. Polk, and minister to Britain before he became the nation's fifteenth president in 1857, so the image dates from a period when he was a prominent public figure.

Created / published[between 1844 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : sixth plate daguerreotype, gold toned.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860.
NotesPossibly a copy daguerreotype. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.
SubjectsBuchanan, James,--1791-1868.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,290 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
Reference69_James_Buchanan_headands_1844

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