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[Unidentified man, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the left] – Vintage Photo Print

[Unidentified man, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the left], [between 1854 and 1860] — historic photograph
[Unidentified man, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the left], [between 1854 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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This rare historic photograph captures [Unidentified man, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the left] in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Unidentified man, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the left]

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The brass mat stamped "A. Washington, 136 Main St., Hartford, Conn." links this daguerreotype to Augustus Washington, a Black photographer who ran a studio in that Connecticut city during the 1850s. The plate passed into the Library of Congress through the American Colonization Society records, an organization founded in 1817 to resettle Black Americans in Liberia. The sitter remains unidentified; the catalog offers Alfred F. Russell as a tentative match, based only on resemblance to another plate. The sixth-plate size and three-quarter pose are typical of portraits made between 1854 and 1860.

Created / published[between 1854 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : sixth plate daguerreotype.
GenrePortrait photographs 1850-1860.Daguerreotypes 1850-1860.
SubjectsAlternatively identified as Alfred F. Russell based on similarity to DAG no. 1011. Stamped on brass mat: A. Washington 136 Main St. Hartford--Ct. Transfer; Manuscript Division. Forms part of: American Colonization Society Records, 1792-1964 (Library of Congress). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). The American Colonization Society was organized in 1817 to resettle Afro-Americans in Liberia. Exhibited: A durable memento: Portraits by Augustus Washington, African American daguerreotypist.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,328 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
Reference663_Unidentified_man_halfle_1854

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