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[Captain Samuel Hamilton Walker, half-length portrait, facing slightly right] – Antique Photo Print

[Captain Samuel Hamilton Walker, half-length portrait, facing slightly right], [1846?] — historic photograph
[Captain Samuel Hamilton Walker, half-length portrait, facing slightly right], [1846?]. 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 [Captain Samuel Hamilton Walker, half-length portrait, facing slightly right], a historic photograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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[Captain Samuel Hamilton Walker, half-length portrait, facing slightly right]

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The plate is inscribed on its surface with "Capt. Walker," which sets this portrait apart from the other daguerreotypes on the board. The sitter is Samuel Hamilton Walker, a Texas Ranger who led a company during the Mexican-American War and was killed at Huamantla in 1847. The record dates the plate to about 1846 and says the identification rests on a mezzotint by A.B. Walter made after an earlier daguerreotype by M.P. Simons, so the likeness has been matched through a copy as well as the original. The plate was produced in Mathew Brady's studio in New York, one of the leading makers of daguerreotype portraits in the 1840s.

Created / published[1846?]
Medium1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1850.Daguerreotypes 1840-1850.
NotesScratched on face of plate: 94; Capt. Walker. In pencil on back of plate: 199. Identification from mezzotint by A.B. Walter from a daguerreotype by M.P. Simons. Hallmark: Rinhart 46. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.
SubjectsWalker, Samuel Hamilton,--1817-1847.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,131 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
Reference157_Captain_Samuel_Hamilton_1846

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