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[Unidentified U.S. Army officer, head-and-shoulders portrait, slightly to the right, in military uniform] – Vintage Photo Print

[Unidentified U.S. Army officer, head-and-shoulders portrait, slightly to the right, in military uniform], [between 1844 and 1860] — historic photograph
[Unidentified U.S. Army officer, head-and-shoulders portrait, slightly to the right, in military uniform], [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 scratched "299" on the back of this half-plate daguerreotype is one of the few marks that sets it apart, and the record offers a tentative identification as John Joseph Abercrombie, though the sitter is catalogued as unidentified. The plate came from the studio of Mathew Brady, whose New York and Washington operations made the daguerreotype a common way to record public men in the years before the Civil War. Gold toning, applied after exposure, warmed the image's tones and strengthened the silvered surface. The plate later passed to the U.S. War College and was transferred to the Library of Congress in 1920.

Created / published[between 1844 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype, gold toned.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860.
NotesScratched on back of plate: 299. Alternative identification: John Joseph Abercrombie. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.
SubjectsMilitary officers--1840-1860.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,274 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference488_Unidentified_US_Army_of_1844

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