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[William Bradhurst, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right] – Historic Photograph Print

[William Bradhurst, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right], [between 1851 and 1860] — historic photograph
[William Bradhurst, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right], [between 1851 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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A small sixth-plate daguerreotype in a beehive-pattern case shows William Bradhurst, son of Samuel, in a head-and-shoulders pose turned slightly to the right. The name Anson, with an address at 589 Broadway in New York, is stamped on the brass mat and embossed inside the case, which points to where the case was sold. Beehive cases were molded from a composition material and were a popular style in the 1850s. Each daguerreotype is a single unique image on a silvered copper plate, which is why such portraits look so sharp and mirror-like when tilted in the light.

Created / published[between 1851 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : sixth plate daguerreotype.
GenrePortrait photographs 1850-1860.Daguerreotypes 1850-1860.
NotesCase: beehive design. Accompanying note: Wm. Bradhurst, son of Samuel. Embossed on inside of case: Anson 589 Broadway N.Y. Stamped on brass mat: Anson 589 Broadway. Gift; Family of William B. Osgood Field; 1997; (DLC/PP-1999:155). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,248 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference59_William_Bradhurst_heada_1851

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