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[Ben Campbell, steamship at landing] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[Ben Campbell, steamship at landing], [between 1852 and 1860] — historic photograph
[Ben Campbell, steamship at landing], [between 1852 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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The title names the vessel, the steamship Ben Campbell, shown at a landing. This quarter-plate daguerreotype, a small image on silvered copper, was made sometime between 1852 and 1860 by a photographer who has not been identified. Steamboats carried most of the passengers and freight on American rivers in those years, and this plate records a working vessel at the moment of docking. The case, a variant of a style cataloged by Rinhart, shows how these small images were packaged for sale.

Created / published[between 1852 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : quarter plate daguerreotype.
GenreDaguerreotypes 1850-1860.
NotesPhotographer unidentified. Case: front, variant of Rinhart 163; back, central spiral within rectangular border. Purchase; 1982; (DLC/PP-1982:095). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsSteamboats--1850-1860.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,270 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
Reference571_Ben_Campbell_steamship_1852

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