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[Erastus Brooks, head-and-shoulders portrait, three-quarters to the right] – Antique Photo Print

[Erastus Brooks, head-and-shoulders portrait, three-quarters to the right], [between 1844 and 1860] — historic photograph
[Erastus Brooks, head-and-shoulders portrait, three-quarters to the right], [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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This half-plate daguerreotype shows Erastus Brooks, a New York newspaper editor and later a member of Congress, in a head-and-shoulders view turned three-quarters to the right. Brady's studio made the portrait sometime between 1844 and 1860, and gold toning gives the silver image a warmer tone and greater durability. The plate's rounded corners and the pencil and scratched numbers on its back show how such plates were cataloged and handled. Ballou's Pictorial reproduced the likeness as an engraving in January 1857, which reflects how widely photographic portraits of public figures were circulated in print during the period.

Created / published[between 1844 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype, gold toned.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860.
NotesIdentification from: Ballou's pictorial drawing-room companion, January, 10, 1857, p. 28. Scratched on back of plate: 159. Written in pencil on back of plate: 74. Corners rounded. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.
SubjectsBrooks, Erastus,--1815-1886.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,276 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference64_Erastus_Brooks_headands_1844

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