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Elderly man with spectacles, half-length portrait – Antique Photo Print

Elderly man with spectacles, half-length portrait, 1844 — historic photograph
Elderly man with spectacles, half-length portrait, 1844. Historic photograph from the Daguerreotypes & Early Photography collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Joseph Story, shown from the waist up and facing the camera with his spectacles on, was an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1811 until his death in 1845. He also taught law at Harvard, where he wrote widely used commentaries on the Constitution and on equity law that shaped American legal education for decades. The picture was made in Mathew Brady's studio in the mid-1840s, when daguerreotypes had become a popular way for professionals to sit for portraits. The gold toning that gives the plate its warm, silvery tone was a common finishing step that helped protect the image and sharpen its contrast.

Created / published1844
Original scan1,092 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
Reference253_Joseph_Story_halflength_1844

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