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Unidentified woman half – Historic Photograph Print

Unidentified woman half, 1840 — historic photograph
Unidentified woman half, 1840. Historic photograph from the Daguerreotypes & Early Photography collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Unidentified woman half comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.

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Unidentified woman half

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Her name is not recorded, which is common for daguerreotype portraits from the early 1840s, when the process was new enough that most sitters went unnamed on the plate. Daguerre's method was announced in Paris in 1839, so by 1840 the portrait was still a novelty and each image was a single positive on a silvered copper sheet. Early exposures could run for several minutes, which asked sitters to hold very still. The half-plate size was one of the standard formats for portraits of the period.

Created / published1840
Original scan3,219 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference516_Unidentified_woman_half_1840

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