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[Azariah C. Flagg, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the left] – Vintage Photo Print

[Azariah C. Flagg, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the left], [between 1844 and 1860] — historic photograph
[Azariah C. Flagg, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the left], [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 New York Democrat and former state comptroller, Azariah Cutting Flagg is known to us partly through an 1855 engraving by J.C. Buttre, made from a different Brady daguerreotype and published in the *United States Review*. This plate, shown three-quarters turned to the left, carries his name in ink on the back, along with a scratched number, and reached the Library of Congress through the U.S. War College in 1920. Gold toning, common on daguerreotypes of the period, warms the surface and softens the highlights on the face, and the Brady studio's work shows how public men of the 1840s and 1850s used the new medium to shape their images.

Created / published[between 1844 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype, gold toned.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860.
NotesIdentification from engraving by J.C. Buttre after a different daguerreotype by Brady, United States Review, August, 1855, opp. p. 7. Scratched on back of plate: 230. Written in ink on back of plate: A.C. Flagg. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.
SubjectsFlagg, Azariah C. (Azariah Cutting),--1790-1873.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,222 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
Reference151_Azariah_C_Flagg_halflen_1844

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