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[U.S. Military Commission to Crimea] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[U.S. Military Commission to Crimea], [ca. 1855] — historic photograph
[U.S. Military Commission to Crimea], [ca. 1855]. 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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Three men named in the record, Richard Delafield, Alfred Mordecai and George B. McClellan, appear in this cut-down whole plate daguerreotype as members of the U.S. Military Commission to Crimea. The group was made around 1855, when the Crimean War was under way and the United States sent army officers to observe the armies fighting in Europe. Delafield led the commission, and McClellan, who later commanded the Army of the Potomac in the Civil War, was one of its younger officers. The photographer is unidentified, but the plate's trimmed size and its later mounting show how daguerreotypes were often altered after they were made.

Created / published[ca. 1855]
Medium1 photograph : whole plate daguerreotype, cut down.
GenreGroup portraits 1850-1860.Daguerreotypes 1850-1860.
NotesPhotographer unidentified. Hallmark: Rinhart 9. In passe partout mat. Transfer; Manuscript Division; 1950. Forms part of: Alfred Mordecai Papers, 1790-1946 (Library of Congress). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsMordecai, Alfred,--1804-1887. Delafield, Richard,--1798-1873. McClellan, George Brinton,--1826-1885. Military personnel--1850-1860.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,155 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
Reference634_US_Military_Commission_1855

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