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[Ezra Bartlett French, half-length portrait, facing front] – Historic Photograph Print

[Ezra Bartlett French, half-length portrait, facing front], [between 1844 and 1860] — historic photograph
[Ezra Bartlett French, half-length 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [Ezra Bartlett French, half-length portrait, facing front]. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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[Ezra Bartlett French, half-length portrait, facing front]

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A half-length portrait of Ezra Bartlett French, who lived from 1810 to 1880, shows him facing the camera, and the number 119 scratched into the back of the plate helps identify it within its original collection. The image was made in the 1844 to 1860 window, when Mathew Brady's studio was one of the best-known portrait operations in the United States. Daguerreotypes like this one were made on silver-surfaced copper and viewed at an angle, so the sitter appears as a mirror-like image that shifts with the light. The plate later passed through the U.S. War College and entered the Library of Congress in 1920.

Created / published[between 1844 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860.
NotesScratched on back of plate: 119. Hallmark: 40M. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.
SubjectsFrench, Ezra Bartlett,--1810-1880.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,270 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference185_Ezra_Bartlett_French_ha_1844

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