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[Sam Houston, head-and-shoulders portrait, three-quarters to the right] – Antique Photo Print

[Sam Houston, head-and-shoulders portrait, three-quarters to the right], [between 1844 and 1860] — historic photograph
[Sam Houston, head-and-shoulders portrait, three-quarters to the right], [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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Trimmed to an irregular outline and gold-toned to deepen its tones, this head-and-shoulders daguerreotype shows Sam Houston turned three-quarters to the right. Houston led Texas to independence from Mexico, served as the republic's president, and later represented Texas in the United States Senate and governed the state, so his likeness carried real public weight. The plate was produced in the studio of Mathew Brady, whose gallery photographed many prominent Americans during the years when the daguerreotype was the leading photographic process. A number scratched on the back suggests the plate was tracked among the studio's other work.

Created / published[between 1844 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : quarter plate daguerreotype, gold toned.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860.
NotesCut down to an irregular shape, edges trimmed. Scratched on back of plate: 340. Reverse image of DAG no. 233. Facing the light / H. Pfister. Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1978, p. 327. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.
SubjectsHouston, Sam,--1793-1863.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,150 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
Reference302_Sam_Houston_headandshou_1844

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