[View of an unidentified village with ship in background] – Vintage Photo Print
![[View of an unidentified village with ship in background], [between 1840 and 1860] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/f9/f9ee93401f69-L.webp)
(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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A window into the past: [View of an unidentified village with ship in background], preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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[View of an unidentified village with ship in background]
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A cut-down half plate daguerreotype, this view shows a village whose name went unrecorded, with a sailing ship visible in the distance beyond the buildings. The plate was made sometime between 1840 and 1860, the years when daguerreotypes were the dominant photographic process and travelers and studios produced thousands of such views of towns, harbors and street scenes. The photographer is unknown, and the case, a variant of a known Rinhart design, points to the mass-produced cases of the period. The picture was later purchased at a ranch auction in Switzerland in 1961 and is now held by the Library of Congress.
| Created / published | [between 1840 and 1860] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype, cut down. |
| Genre | Daguerreotypes 1840-1860. |
| Notes | Photographer unidentified. Case: variant of Rinhart 131. Purchase; Ranch Auction, Switzerland; 1961. Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,271 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 532_View_of_an_unidentified_1840 |
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