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[George Wallace Jones, half-length portrait, three-quarters to left, eyes front, with beard] – Historic Photograph Print

[George Wallace Jones, half-length portrait, three-quarters to left, eyes front, with beard], [between 1844 and 1860] — historic photograph
[George Wallace Jones, half-length portrait, three-quarters to left, eyes front, with beard], [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: [George Wallace Jones, half-length portrait, three-quarters to left, eyes front, with beard], 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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[George Wallace Jones, half-length portrait, three-quarters to left, eyes front, with beard]

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The inscription scratched on the back of this half-plate daguerreotype names the sitter as G.W. Jones of Iowa, which ties the portrait to a man who served Western territories and states in Washington. Jones, born in 1804, was a delegate for Wisconsin Territory and later one of Iowa's first two U.S. senators, serving from 1848 to 1859. The plate is gold toned, a chemical treatment that warmed the silvery image and made its surface more durable, and it came from the studio of Mathew Brady, whose sitters included many prominent national figures of the period. Jones appears in half length, turned slightly to the left, with a full beard and a direct gaze at the camera.

Created / published[between 1844 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype, gold toned.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860.
NotesScratched on face of plate: 41; G.W. Jones. Scratched on back of plate: 99; G.W. Jones, Iowa. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920. (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.
SubjectsJones, George Wallace,--1804-1896.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,294 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference193_George_Wallace_Jones_ha_1844

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