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[Henry Rodgers, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right] – Historic Photograph Print

[Henry Rodgers, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right], [ca. 1850] — historic photograph
[Henry Rodgers, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right], [ca. 1850]. 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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[Henry Rodgers, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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A small sixteenth-plate daguerreotype, touched with hand color, shows Henry Rodgers in a head-and-shoulders view turned toward the right. A label on its oval red velvet case gives his dates as 1823 to 1854, so the portrait was probably made around 1850, near the end of his short life. Daguerreotypes of this period were prized for their mirror-like detail, and hand coloring was a common way to add warmth to a sitter's face. The picture is part of the Rodgers Family Papers at the Library of Congress, which places it among a family's personal records.

Created / published[ca. 1850]
Medium1 photograph : sixteenth plate daguerreotype, hand-colored.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860.
NotesPhotographer unidentified. Case: oval red velvet push button case. Accompanying label on case: Henry Rodgers, 1823-1854. Transfer; Manuscript Division; 1993; (DLC/PP-1993:211). Forms part of: Rodgers Family Papers, 1740-1977 (Library of Congress). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsRodgers, Henry,--d. 1854.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,267 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference207_Henry_Rodgers_headandsh_1850

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