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[White frame house with white picket fence at Cambridge, New York, with horse and buggy in front – Antique Photo Print

[White frame house with white picket fence at Cambridge, New York, with horse and buggy in front, [between 1840 and 1860] — historic photograph
[White frame house with white picket fence at Cambridge, New York, with horse and buggy in front, [between 1840 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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A window into the past: [White frame house with white picket fence at Cambridge, New York, with horse and buggy in front, preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[White frame house with white picket fence at Cambridge, New York, with horse and buggy in front

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A white frame house behind a white picket fence in Cambridge, New York, stands in this quarter-plate daguerreotype with a horse and buggy waiting out front. Daguerreotypes like this one were made on polished silver-coated copper plates and sealed behind glass in a small case, so each image is a single positive that cannot be copied the way later negatives could. This example dates to roughly 1840 to 1860, a period when the daguerreotype was the most common form of photography in the United States. The record notes that the original case is fitted with a mirror so the viewer sees the house the right way round, and the carriage in front offers a glimpse of everyday rural travel before the railroad reshaped the region.

Created / published[between 1840 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : quarter-plate daguerreotype.
Genre46". Purchase; Marian S. Carson; 1998; (DLC/PP-1998:151.20). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection (Library of Congress)"
NotesCase: similar to Rinhart 108. Mirror inside case to show house in correct orientation. Labels adhered to seal: Cambridge
SubjectsHouses--New York--Cambridge--1840-1860. Carriages & coaches--New York--Cambridge--1840-1860.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,662 × 3,743 px · prints to 16 × 12 in at 300 dpi
Reference77_White_frame_house_with_1840

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