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[Unidentified man, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front] – Historic Photograph Print

[Unidentified man, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front], [between 1844 and 1860] — historic photograph
[Unidentified man, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front], [between 1844 and 1860]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive 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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[Unidentified man, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]

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Only a number, 312, scratched into the back of the plate, identifies this quarter plate daguerreotype, and nothing in the record names the sitter, who appears head-and-shoulders and facing forward. The picture came from the studio of Mathew Brady, whose New York operation was among the best known daguerreotype portrait businesses of the 1840s and 1850s. Gold toning, a chemical treatment applied to the silver surface, deepened the image's tones and sharpened the features. The plate was transferred to the U.S. War College in 1920 before entering the Library of Congress collection.

Created / published[between 1844 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : quarter plate daguerreotype, gold toned.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860.
NotesScratched on back of plate: 312. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan658 × 863 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-186525

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