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[Richard Yates, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left] – Vintage Photo Print

[Richard Yates, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left], [between 1844 and 1860] — historic photograph
[Richard Yates, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left], [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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A window into the past: [Richard Yates, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left], preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[Richard Yates, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left]

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Richard Yates appears here in a head-and-shoulders pose, turned slightly to the left, in a half-plate daguerreotype. The Illinois politician later served as the state's governor during the Civil War, and this portrait was made in Mathew Brady's studio sometime between 1844 and 1860, when the daguerreotype was the leading method for studio portraits. The Library of Congress holds the image as a transfer, a copy that came through the U.S. War College and was recorded there in 1920.

Created / published[between 1844 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860.
NotesTransfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.
SubjectsYates, Richard,--1815-1873.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,300 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference296_Richard_Yates_headandsh_1844

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