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Edwards Amasa Park half – Antique Photo Print

Edwards Amasa Park half, 1844 — historic photograph
Edwards Amasa Park half, 1844. 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 Edwards Amasa Park half in remarkable detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.

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Edwards Amasa Park half

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This half-length daguerreotype shows Edwards Amasa Park, a professor at Andover Theological Seminary and one of the leading New England Calvinist theologians of his time. Dated 1844, it comes from the years when portrait daguerreotypes were becoming popular in American cities, and sitters had to hold still for long exposures under strong studio light. Notice the crisp detail in the face and the mirror-like silvered plate, which shows a positive image when viewed at one angle and a negative when tilted.

Created / published1844
Original scan1,224 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
Reference178_Edwards_Amasa_Park_half_1844

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