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[James Curtis Booth, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[James Curtis Booth, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left], [between 1846 and 1856] — historic photograph
[James Curtis Booth, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left], [between 1846 and 1856]. 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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This rare historic photograph captures [James Curtis Booth, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left] in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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[James Curtis Booth, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left]

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The sitter is James Curtis Booth (1810-1888), a Philadelphia chemist and metallurgist, and the portrait stands out for its studio. The brass mat is stamped with the name of M. A. Root and his address on Chestnut Street in Philadelphia, a fashionable commercial district where Root ran one of the city's best-known daguerreotype galleries in the late 1840s and 1850s. Shown in profile, facing left, Booth is framed head-and-shoulders on a quarter-plate silvered copper plate, a format that was common for portraits of the period. The decorative scroll and central leaf pattern on the case reflects the mid-century taste for ornate housings that protected these fragile, mirror-like images.

Created / published[between 1846 and 1856]
Medium1 photograph : quarter plate daguerreotype.
GenreDaguerreotypes 1840-1860.Portrait photographs 1840-1860.
NotesBrass mat stamped: M. A. Root, 140 Chestnut St., Philada. Case: scroll and central leaf motif. Purchase; Marian S. Carson; 1996; (DLC/PP-1996:087.10). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection (Library of Congress)
SubjectsBooth, James Curtis,--1810-1888.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,284 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference51_James_Curtis_Booth_head_1846

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