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[Ichabod B. Crane, three-quarter length portrait, facing slightly right] – Antique Photo Print

[Ichabod B. Crane, three-quarter length portrait, facing slightly right], [between 1844 and 1857] — historic photograph
[Ichabod B. Crane, three-quarter length portrait, facing slightly right], [between 1844 and 1857]. 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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This rare historic photograph captures [Ichabod B. Crane, three-quarter length portrait, facing slightly right] in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Ichabod B. Crane, three-quarter length portrait, facing slightly right]

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The name Ichabod B. Crane is scratched into the back of this half-plate daguerreotype, which is the detail that ties the sitter to a specific life rather than a generic portrait. The plate is gold toned, a treatment that warmed the silver image and sharpened its shadows, and it was made in the studio of Mathew Brady between 1844 and 1857, when portraits of this kind were prized for their fine detail. Its transfer to the U.S. War College in 1920 suggests the plate was kept in military hands for decades, a reminder of how many early portraits survive through institutional collections.

Created / published[between 1844 and 1857]
Medium1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype, gold toned.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860.
NotesHallmark: Rinhart 9. Scratched on back of plate: 226; I.B. [Cran]e. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.
SubjectsCrane, Ichabod B.,--d. 1857.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,323 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference124_Ichabod_B_Crane_threequ_1844

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