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[Alexander Barrow, half-length portrait, facing three-quarters to the left] – Vintage Photo Print

[Alexander Barrow, half-length portrait, facing three-quarters to the left], [between 1844 and 1846] — historic photograph
[Alexander Barrow, half-length portrait, facing three-quarters to the left], [between 1844 and 1846]. 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 [Alexander Barrow, half-length portrait, facing three-quarters to the left]. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Alexander Barrow, half-length portrait, facing three-quarters to the left]

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A sixth-plate daguerreotype of Alexander Barrow, a Louisiana senator who died in office in 1846, shows him in half-length, turned three-quarters to the left. Mathew Brady's studio made the plate sometime between 1844 and 1846, when Brady was building his reputation photographing prominent Americans. Its gold toning, which warmed the silver image and helped preserve its surface, was a common finishing step for the best studio work of the period. The back of the plate notes a transfer from the U.S. War College in 1920, before it entered the Library of Congress.

Created / published[between 1844 and 1846]
Medium1 photograph : sixth plate daguerreotype, gold toned.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1850.Daguerreotypes 1840-1850.
NotesWritten on back of plate: Barrow, La. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.
SubjectsBarrow, Alexander,--1801-1846.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,274 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
Reference23_Alexander_Barrow_halfle_1844

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