Daguerreotype portrait of a man in dark coat and white collar – Historic Photo Reproduction
(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: Daguerreotype portrait of a man in dark coat and white collar, preserved in this historic photograph. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Daguerreotype portrait of a man in dark coat and white collar
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Early daguerreotypes like this one date to 1844, a decade after Louis Daguerre announced his process in Paris in 1839, when the medium was still new and sitters had to hold very still for minutes at a time. The image is a direct positive on a silvered copper plate, so it has no negative and cannot be reproduced the way later paper prints could. Its subject, a man in a dark coat with a white collar, reflects the sober fashion of the period, when formal portraits were among the most common and prized uses of the new technique. Because the record names no sitter, the portrait is best read as a representative example of the way middle-class Americans and Europeans first sat for a likeness.
| Created / published | 1844 |
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| Original scan | 3,322 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 464_Unidentified_man_headan_1844 |
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