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[Hannibal Hamlin, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly to left] – Vintage Photo Print

[Hannibal Hamlin, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly to left], [between 1844 and 1860] — historic photograph
[Hannibal Hamlin, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly to 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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Few early portraits of a future vice president survive, and this half-plate daguerreotype shows Hannibal Hamlin of Maine in a three-quarter view, turned slightly to the left. Hamlin, born in 1809, served in Congress and the Senate from Maine before the Civil War and was elected vice president under Abraham Lincoln in 1860. The plate was made in Mathew Brady's studio between 1844 and 1860, and its gold toning helped stabilize the silver surface and deepen the image. It was later transferred to the U.S. War College in 1920, and it now belongs to the Library of Congress.

Created / published[between 1844 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype, gold toned.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860.
NotesScratched on back of plate: 95; 294. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.
SubjectsHamlin, Hannibal,--1809-1891.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,176 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
Reference198_Hannibal_Hamlin_headand_1844

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