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[Thomas George Pratt, half-length portrait, slightly to left] – Historic Photograph Print

[Thomas George Pratt, half-length portrait, slightly to left], [between 1848 and 1860] — historic photograph
[Thomas George Pratt, half-length portrait, slightly to left], [between 1848 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 window into the past: [Thomas George Pratt, half-length portrait, slightly to left], preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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[Thomas George Pratt, half-length portrait, slightly to left]

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A politician's name is scratched into the back of this half-plate daguerreotype, which identifies the sitter as Thomas George Pratt, governor and later senator from Maryland. Pratt led the state from 1845 to 1848 and then served in the U.S. Senate, and the portrait was likely made at Mathew Brady's studio, where Washington officeholders often sat in the 1850s. As a daguerreotype, it is a single unique image on silvered copper, and the gold toning deepens its tones and protects the surface. Its transfer to the U.S. War College in 1920 explains how it later came into the Library of Congress.

Created / published[between 1848 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype, gold toned.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860.
NotesScratched on back of plate: 141; Gov. Pratt; Sen. Pratt, Md. Hallmark: Rinhart 21. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920. (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.
SubjectsPratt, Thomas George,--1804-1869.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,302 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference318_Thomas_George_Pratt_hal_1848

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