Unidentified man and wo – Vintage Wall Art
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
A window into the past: Unidentified man and wo, preserved in this historic photograph. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
Framed, it is ready for the wall; unframed, it is ready for the frame you choose. It brings character to any room and makes a memorable gift. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past has been bringing history to the wall since 2001, for tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Unidentified man and wo
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A man and a woman sit together in this 1855 daguerreotype, but the record does not preserve their names, so their story survives only in their poses and dress. Daguerreotypes like this one were made on silver-coated copper plates that gave a sharp, mirror-like image, and by the mid-1850s portrait studios had made them a common way for ordinary families to record themselves. Sitters often had to hold still for many seconds, which explains the composed, serious expressions typical of the period.
| Created / published | 1855 |
|---|---|
| Original scan | 4,042 × 5,000 px · prints to 13 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 643_Unidentified_man_and_wo_1855 |
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