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[Charles Bradhurst, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front] – Antique Photo Print

[Charles Bradhurst, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front], [between 1851 and 1860] — historic photograph
[Charles Bradhurst, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front], [between 1851 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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[Charles Bradhurst, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]

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Charles Bradhurst, son of Samuel and Mary according to an accompanying note, sits for this sixth plate daguerreotype, and the subject's birth year of 1840 places him at roughly ten to twenty when it was made. The head-and-shoulders pose faces the camera squarely, and the small plate size was one that made portraits affordable for many families. The eight-pointed star on the case and the name Walter Scott Shinn stamped on the back of the plate may point to the workshop that produced it. Daguerreotypes like this one show their finest detail, and their mirror-like surface, only when tilted to catch the light at the right angle.

Created / published[between 1851 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : sixth plate daguerreotype.
Genreold photographs copied
NotesCase: 8 pointed star motif. Accompanying note: Charles Bradhurst, son of Samuel and Mary. The back of the plate is stamped with: Walter Scott Shinn
SubjectsBradhurst, Charles,--b. 1840.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,266 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference56_Charles_Bradhurst_heada_1851

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