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[Unidentified man, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front] – Vintage Photo Print

[Unidentified man, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front], [between 1847 and 1860] — historic photograph
[Unidentified man, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front], [between 1847 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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[Unidentified man, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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The brass mat on this quarter-plate daguerreotype is stamped with the name J. P. Ball of Cincinnati, linking the portrait to a busy river city with a lively daguerreotype trade in the 1850s. The sitter, an unidentified man shown head and shoulders and facing the camera, was captured between 1847 and 1860, when the process was the most popular way to have one's likeness made. Only the back of the case is shown, and its zigzag pattern is a typical decorative touch on cases of the period, which protected the fragile silvered plate.

Created / published[between 1847 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : quarter-plate daguerreotype.
GenreDaguerreotypes 1840-1860.Portrait photographs 1840-1860.
NotesCase: back only - zigzag design. Barboza number: 6019.027. Stamped on brass mat: J. P. Ball, Cincinnati. Purchase; Anthony Barboza; 1999; (DLC/PP-1999:022). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,028 × 5,000 px · prints to 13 × 17 in at 300 dpi
Reference439_Unidentified_man_headan_1847

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