[Benjamin family group portrait, posed around a column] – Vintage Photo Print
![[Benjamin family group portrait, posed around a column], [between 1845 and 1858] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/d7/d793d74d3c35-L.webp)
(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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[Benjamin family group portrait, posed around a column]
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Five members of the Benjamin family stand around a classical column in this half-plate daguerreotype, which someone later hand-colored. The mat is stamped with the name of Whitney, a studio in Rochester, New York, and the picture dates from roughly 1845 to 1858, when the daguerreotype was the leading portrait process. Exposures then lasted seconds or longer, so sitters had to hold still while the silvered copper plate recorded their likenesses. The donor, Frances Benjamin Johnston, later became a noted photographer, and she is also named among the family members pictured.
| Created / published | [between 1845 and 1858] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photograph : half-plate daguerreotype, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1840-1860.Group portraits 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860. |
| Notes | From left to right: Cornelia Juliaette, Zina Hitchcock, Frances Antoinette, Samuel Clark, and Joanette. Case: Rinhart 9. Stamped on mat: Whitney, Roch. NY. Gift; Frances Benjamin Johnston. Forms part of: Frances Benjamin Johnston collection (Library of Congress). Published in: Eyes of the Nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and the curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York : Knopf, 1997. Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). |
| Subjects | Benjamin, Cornelia Juliaette,--b. 1839. Johnston, Frances Antoinette Benjamin. Benjamin, Joanette Clark,--1814 or 1815-1880. Benjamin, Samuel Clark,--b. 1834. Benjamin, Zina Hitchcock,--1807-1865. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,457 × 1,170 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218475 |
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