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[Horace Greeley, full-length portrait, three-quarters to the right, seated in chair, wearing tall hat, folded newspaper in lap, carpet on floor] – Historic Photograph Print

[Horace Greeley, full-length portrait, three-quarters to the right, seated in chair, wearing tall hat, folded newspaper in lap, carpet on floor], [between 1844 and 1860] — historic photograph
[Horace Greeley, full-length portrait, three-quarters to the right, seated in chair, wearing tall hat, folded newspaper in lap, carpet on floor], [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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Seated in a chair and turned three-quarters to the right, Horace Greeley wears a tall hat and rests a folded newspaper in his lap, a fitting prop for the founder of the New-York Tribune in 1841. The full-length pose, with a carpet visible beneath him, shows more of the sitter and his surroundings than the head-and-shoulders portraits common at the time. Made in Mathew Brady's studio between 1844 and 1860, the plate reflects the long exposures daguerreotypes required and the gold toning that warmed its silver surface. Greeley later ran for president in 1872.

Created / published[between 1844 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype, gold toned.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860.
NotesScratched on face of plate: 42. Scratched on back of plate: 330; Horace Greeley. Facing the light / H. Pfister. Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1978, p. 322. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Published in: Eyes of the Nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and the curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York : Knopf, 1997. Produced by Mathew Brady's studio. Exhibit loan 4116-L.
SubjectsGreeley, Horace,--1811-1872.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,118 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
Reference212_Horace_Greeley_fullleng_1844

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