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[Occupational portrait of a peddler, full-length, standing, facing front, with two bags held at his sides by a harness, neck brace visible between legs] – Historic Photograph Print

[Occupational portrait of a peddler, full-length, standing, facing front, with two bags held at his sides by a harness, neck brace visible between legs], [between 1840 and 1860] — historic photograph
[Occupational portrait of a peddler, full-length, standing, facing front, with two bags held at his sides by a harness, neck brace visible between legs], [between 1840 and 1860]. Historic photograph from the Work & Industry 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 full-length daguerreotype shows a peddler standing squarely to the camera, with two bags hung at his sides from a harness, and the neck strap that supports them visible between his legs. Peddlers of the 1840s and 1850s carried their stock on foot along country roads, selling household goods, notions and small wares to farm families who rarely reached a town store. Posing with the pack made the trade itself the subject, which was unusual for a studio portrait of the period. The small sixth-plate size and plain leather case reflect how these images were sold to ordinary customers, and the name Myers stamped on the mat is one of the few clues to who handled the picture.

Created / published[between 1840 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : sixth plate daguerreotype.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860.
NotesCase: plain leather, push button. Stamped on mat: Myers. Purchase/exchange; Dr. Gary Vroegindewey; 1981; (DLC/PP-1981:R380.11). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsPeddlers--1840-1860.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,169 × 1,493 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-218087

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