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[C.C. Clay, half-length portrait, head slightly to the right] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[C.C. Clay, half-length portrait, head slightly to the right], [between 1844 and 1860] — historic photograph
[C.C. Clay, half-length portrait, head slightly to the right], [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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This half-length daguerreotype shows Clement Claiborne Clay with his head turned slightly to the right, its gold toning giving the portrait a warm, soft finish. Clay represented Alabama in the U.S. Senate at the time, and Brady's studio image was engraved as a woodcut in *Harper's Weekly* on February 25, 1860, which carried portraits of prominent public men to a national readership. Clay left the Senate in early 1861 when Alabama seceded and later served in the Confederate Senate, so the plate records a politician on the eve of the sectional crisis.

Created / published[between 1844 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype, gold toned.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860.
NotesIdentification from woodcut by A.F. after Brady in Harper's Weekly, February 25, 1860, page 116. Scratched on back of plate: 149 [cancelled]; 238. Hallmark: LB. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.
SubjectsClay, C. C. (Clement Claiborne),--1816-1882.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,157 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
Reference92_CC_Clay_halflength_port_1844

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