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[John Van Buren, three-quarter length portrait, three-quarters to the left] – Antique Photo Print

[John Van Buren, three-quarter length portrait, three-quarters to the left], [between 1844 and 1860] — historic photograph
[John Van Buren, three-quarter length portrait, three-quarters to the 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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[John Van Buren, three-quarter length portrait, three-quarters to the left]

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John Van Buren, son of President Martin Van Buren, sits turned three-quarters to the left in this half plate daguerreotype. A New York lawyer and politician known as "Prince John," he was a prominent Democrat who later joined the Free Soil movement opposing the spread of slavery into new territories. The plate was made in Mathew Brady's studio, whose portraits of prominent Americans in the 1840s and 1850s are among the era's best known. Numbers scratched on the plate and its back hint at its handling, and the Library of Congress received it by transfer from the U.S. War College in 1920.

Created / published[between 1844 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860.
NotesScratched on face of plate: 164. Scratched on back of plate: 7. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920. (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.
SubjectsVan Buren, John,--1810-1866.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,137 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
Reference249_John_Van_Buren_threequa_1844

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