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[George Lippard, head and shoulders portrait, facing left] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[George Lippard, head and shoulders portrait, facing left], [ca. 1850] — historic photograph
[George Lippard, head and shoulders portrait, facing left], [ca. 1850]. 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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Step back in time with [George Lippard, head and shoulders portrait, facing left], a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[George Lippard, head and shoulders portrait, facing left]

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This daguerreotype shows the Philadelphia writer George Lippard in head-and-shoulders view, turned to the left, and it survives in its original plain leather case. Lippard became known in the 1840s for lurid urban fiction, most famously *The Quaker City* (1845), which portrayed the vice and corruption he saw in the city. He died in 1854, at about 31, so this portrait is one of the few images that let a reader see the writer as his contemporaries did. Made around 1850, when daguerreotypes were the most common form of portrait photography, it reflects how quickly the medium had become a standard way to record a face.

Created / published[ca. 1850]
Medium1 photograph : approximate half plate daguerreotype.
Genre1999
NotesIn plain leather case. Label adhered to case: 31." Purchase; Marian S. Carson; 1998; (DLC/PP-1998:151.11). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection (Library of Congress) Published in: Gathering history: the Marian S. Carson collection of Americana. Washington
SubjectsLippard, George,--1822-1854.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,826 × 4,686 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi
Reference592_George_Lippard_head_and_1850

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