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Portrait of a fireman wearing a Deluge No. 6 cap – Historic Photo Reproduction

Portrait of a fireman wearing a Deluge No. 6 cap, 1840 — historic photograph
Portrait of a fireman wearing a Deluge No. 6 cap, 1840. Historic photograph from the Daguerreotypes & Early Photography collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This rare historic photograph captures Portrait of a fireman wearing a Deluge No. 6 cap in remarkable detail. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.

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Portrait of a fireman wearing a Deluge No. 6 cap

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Fire company caps like the one this sitter wears were a point of local pride in American towns in the 1840s, when volunteer companies were often as much social clubs as firefighting crews. The "Deluge No. 6" marking names a specific company, and the cap is the detail that identifies the sitter's allegiance. Daguerreotypes from 1840 required subjects to hold still for minutes in bright light, so the stiff pose and steady gaze are a product of the process as much as of the era. The silvered copper plate also gives the image its mirror-like surface, which reverses left and right and rewards close looking.

Created / published1840
Original scan3,263 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference281_Occupational_portrait_o_1840

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