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[Samuel F.B. Morse, half-length portrait, posing with left hand on a telegraph apparatus, facing slightly left] – Vintage Photo Print

[Samuel F.B. Morse, half-length portrait, posing with left hand on a telegraph apparatus, facing slightly left], [ca. 1850] — historic photograph
[Samuel F.B. Morse, half-length portrait, posing with left hand on a telegraph apparatus, facing slightly left], [ca. 1850]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive 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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Samuel F. B. Morse is shown here at half length, resting his left hand on a telegraph apparatus, a detail that ties the portrait directly to the invention that made him famous. He faces slightly to the left, and the sitter's pose suggests a man proud of his instrument rather than a studio figure posed for decoration. The verso is inscribed "From Brady negative," pointing to the Mathew Brady studio, which produced many of the most widely circulated portraits of nineteenth-century Americans. Morse, who had championed the electric telegraph since the 1840s, sat for several such images, and this one reflects the period's interest in linking a notable person with the tools of modern communication.

Created / published[ca. 1850]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1860.Photographic prints 1840-1860.
NotesInscribed on verso: From Brady negative.
SubjectsMorse, Samuel Finley Breese,--1791-1872.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,079 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-109734

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