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[Edward Knight Collins, head-and-shoulders portrait, slightly to the left] – Historic Photograph Print

[Edward Knight Collins, head-and-shoulders portrait, slightly to the left], [between 1844 and 1854] — historic photograph
[Edward Knight Collins, head-and-shoulders portrait, slightly to the left], [between 1844 and 1854]. 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: [Edward Knight Collins, head-and-shoulders portrait, slightly to the left], preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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[Edward Knight Collins, head-and-shoulders portrait, slightly to the left]

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Edward Knight Collins, a shipping businessman, is shown turned slightly to the left in this half-plate daguerreotype, its surface warmed by gold toning. The portrait was produced in Mathew Brady's studio sometime between 1844 and 1854, a decade when the daguerreotype was the dominant portrait process in America. Collins built the Collins Line, a transatlantic steamship company that challenged the British Cunard service in the early 1850s. The sitter's identity rests on an engraving published in Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion in December 1854, since the plate itself bears no name.

Created / published[between 1844 and 1854]
Medium1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype, gold toned.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860.
NotesScratched on back of plate: 45. Hallmark: Rinhart 9. Identification from an engraving in Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion, Dec. 30, 1854, p. 412. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Businessman. Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.
SubjectsCollins, Edward Knight,--1802-1878.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,210 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference109_Edward_Knight_Collins_h_1844

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