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[John Lane Gardner, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right] – Vintage Photo Print

[John Lane Gardner, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right], [between 1844 and 1860] — historic photograph
[John Lane Gardner, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing 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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[John Lane Gardner, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right]

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Scratched into the back of the plate is the inscription "Col. Gardner," which points to the sitter's military connection and to the U.S. War College, where the daguerreotype was held before its transfer to the Library of Congress in 1920. Mathew Brady's studio made the portrait sometime between 1844 and 1860, a period when daguerreotypes were the most popular form of portrait photography and Brady's galleries attracted many prominent sitters. Each daguerreotype is a single, unrepeatable image on a polished silver-coated copper plate, so its fine detail and mirror-like surface are best appreciated up close.

Created / published[between 1844 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860.
NotesScratched on back of plate: 13; Col. Gardner. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.
SubjectsGardner, John Lane,--1793-1869.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,271 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference236_John_Lane_Gardner_heada_1844

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