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[Rufus Blakeman, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the right, facing front, hands folded in lap] – Antique Photo Print

[Rufus Blakeman, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the right, facing front, hands folded in lap], [between 1844 and 1860] — historic photograph
[Rufus Blakeman, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the right, facing front, hands folded in lap], [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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [Rufus Blakeman, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the right, facing front, hands folded in lap]. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Rufus Blakeman, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the right, facing front, hands folded in lap]

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Someone scratched "Dr. Blakeman" into the face of this plate, a personal touch that sets this half-length portrait apart from many studio sittings of the period. Rufus Blakeman is shown turned three-quarters to the right, facing front, with his hands folded in his lap. The daguerreotype came from the studio of Mathew Brady, whose firm made portraits of many prominent sitters in the 1840s and 1850s, and the plate was gold toned to deepen its tones and strengthen the surface. Its later reproduction in the *New England Medical Monthly* in 1892 suggests Blakeman's medical work was still remembered decades after the sitting.

Created / published[between 1844 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype, gold toned.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860.
NotesIdentification from reproduction of photograph in New England Medical Monthly, May 1892, opposite page 374. Scratched on face of plate: 205; Dr. Blakeman. Scratched on back of plate: 50. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,189 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference48_Rufus_Blakeman_halfleng_1844

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