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Unidentified woman head – Historic Photo Reproduction

Unidentified woman head, 1844 — historic photograph
Unidentified woman head, 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 Unidentified woman head in remarkable detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.

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Unidentified woman head

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Only a head is shown here, and the sitter's name has been lost, so the plate is more a close study of one face than a record of a person's life. It dates from 1844, about five years after Louis Daguerre announced his process, when portrait daguerreotypes were still a novelty. Sitters had to hold still for minutes under bright light, and the image lived on a polished silvered copper plate that shows its detail best when tilted toward the light. Images like this one remind us how quickly the medium moved from laboratory curiosity to a fashionable way of recording a face.

Created / published1844
Original scan3,277 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference521_Unidentified_woman_head_1844

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