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[Robert Charles Winthrop, head-and-shoulders portrait, slightly to left, eyes front] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[Robert Charles Winthrop, head-and-shoulders portrait, slightly to left, eyes front], [between 1844 and 1860] — historic photograph
[Robert Charles Winthrop, head-and-shoulders portrait, slightly to left, eyes 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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Robert Charles Winthrop, the Massachusetts statesman who served as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1847 to 1849, sits for this half-plate daguerreotype turned slightly to the left with his eyes fixed on the camera. The plate was made in Mathew Brady's studio sometime between 1844 and 1860, a period when daguerreotypy was the dominant portrait process and sitters often came to studios like Brady's to have their likenesses taken. Scratched numbers on the plate and a later notation tying it to the U.S. War College and a 1920 transfer show how the plate passed through institutional hands before reaching the Library of Congress.

Created / published[between 1844 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype, gold toned.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860.
NotesScratched on face of plate: 158. Scratched on back of plate: 143; 195 [canceled] Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920. (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.
SubjectsWinthrop, Robert C. (Robert Charles),--1809-1894.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,195 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
Reference297_Robert_Charles_Winthrop_1844

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