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[Unidentified group of six women and a boy and girl, three women and the boy are seated in chairs] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[Unidentified group of six women and a boy and girl, three women and the boy are seated in chairs], [between 1844 and 1860] — historic photograph
[Unidentified group of six women and a boy and girl, three women and the boy are seated in chairs], [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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Six women and two children appear in this small sixth-plate daguerreotype, with three of the women and the boy seated in chairs while the others remain in the frame around them. The plate was made in the studio of Mathew Brady, whose New York operation was among the best known of the 1840s and 1850s, and the number 302 scratched on its back suggests the studio tracked it among many others. Daguerreotypes were made on silvered copper and required exposures of many seconds, so sitters were often posed with supports or steady hands. The plate later passed to the U.S. War College and was transferred to the Library of Congress in 1920, preserving a group portrait from the years just before the Civil War.

Created / published[between 1844 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : sixth plate daguerreotype.
GenreGroup portraits 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860.
NotesScratched on back of plate: 302. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,288 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference342_Unidentified_group_of_s_1844

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