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[Mary Woodburn Greeley, half-length portrait of a woman, slightly to the right, facing front, wearing spectacles] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[Mary Woodburn Greeley, half-length portrait of a woman, slightly to the right, facing front, wearing spectacles], [between 1844 and 1860] — historic photograph
[Mary Woodburn Greeley, half-length portrait of a woman, slightly to the right, facing front, wearing spectacles], [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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Wearing spectacles and turned slightly to the right, Mary Woodburn Greeley (1788-1855) sits for this half-length portrait, which was made as a gold-toned half-plate daguerreotype. The image came from the studio of Mathew Brady, and it was produced sometime between 1844 and 1860. A 1915 publication recording the unveiling of a memorial to her son, the newspaper editor Horace Greeley, in Albany reproduced the portrait as his mother's likeness. A number scratched into the plate, 175, is a small reminder of how studios kept track of their work.

Created / published[between 1844 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype, gold toned.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860.
NotesReproduced as the 'Mother of Horace Greeley', and credited to the Clendenin collection in: New York (State) University. Division of Archives and History, Proceedings at the Unveiling of a Memorial to Horace Greeley... Albany, 1915, opposite page 238. Scratched on face of plate: 175. Hallmark: Rinhart 46a. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.
SubjectsGreeley, Mary Woodburn,--1788-1855.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,032 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
Reference264_Mary_Woodburn_Greeley_h_1844

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