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[Joshua R. Giddings, half-length poirtrait, facing slightly right] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[Joshua R. Giddings, half-length poirtrait, facing slightly right], [between 1844 and 1860] — historic photograph
[Joshua R. Giddings, half-length poirtrait, facing slightly right], [between 1844 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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Joshua Reed Giddings, the Ohio congressman who served in the House of Representatives for two decades, sits for this half-length portrait, turned slightly toward the right. The image is a sixth-plate daguerreotype, a small, mirror-bright picture on silvered copper that has been gold toned to soften its highlights and deepen its shadows, and it carries the studio attribution of Mathew Brady, whose New York gallery drew many of the period's public figures. The record describes it as a copy, transferred in 1920 from holdings at the U.S. War College, so it preserves a likeness made during the years Giddings was a prominent antislavery voice in Congress.

Created / published[between 1844 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : sixth plate daguerreotype, gold toned.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860.
NotesScratched on back of plate: 322. Copy daguerreotype. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.
SubjectsGiddings, Joshua R. (Joshua Reed),--1795-1864.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,275 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
Reference255_Joshua_R_Giddings_halfl_1844

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