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[Samuel Hanson Cox, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the left] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[Samuel Hanson Cox, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the left], [between 1844 and 1860] — historic photograph
[Samuel Hanson Cox, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the left], [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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[Samuel Hanson Cox, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the left]

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Samuel Hanson Cox appears here in a half-length study, turned three-quarters to the left, with the warm, even tones that gold toning gave daguerreotype plates. Cox (1793-1880) was a Presbyterian clergyman in the New York area and a public voice on the religious and reform questions of his day. The plate was made in Mathew Brady's studio between 1844 and 1860, when Brady's rooms drew many prominent sitters. Numbers scratched on the back and a 1920 transfer to the U.S. War College trace the plate's passage through several hands before it reached the Library of Congress.

Created / published[between 1844 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype, gold toned.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860.
NotesScratched on back of plate: 33 [cancelled]; 53 [cancelled]; 54. Hallmark: Rinhart 9. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.
SubjectsCox, Samuel H. (Samuel Hanson),--1793-1880.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,174 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference122_Samuel_Hanson_Cox_halfl_1844

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