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[Unidentified boy, half-length portrait, seated with arm resting on table with tablecloth] – Vintage Photo Print

[Unidentified boy, half-length portrait, seated with arm resting on table with tablecloth], [ca. 1848] — historic photograph
[Unidentified boy, half-length portrait, seated with arm resting on table with tablecloth], [ca. 1848]. 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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A half-length portrait of an unidentified boy, seated with one arm resting on a draped table, sets this sixth-plate daguerreotype apart from the many child portraits made in the 1840s. The image dates to about 1848, when the daguerreotype was the leading photographic process and sitters often paid for small, sealed cases like this one. The silk pad inside is stamped "J. Turpin," and a partial hallmark shows an eagle holding an olive branch, details that help historians trace how cases were made and sold.

Created / published[ca. 1848]
Medium1 photograph : sixth-plate daguerreotype.
GenreDaguerreotypes 1840-1850.Portrait photographs 1840-1850.
NotesCase: Rinhart 219. Barboza number: 6019.004. Stamped on silk pad: J. Turpin. Partial hallmark showing the wing and foot of an eagle holding an olive branch. Gift; Anthony Barboza; 1999; (DLC/PP-1999:022). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,821 × 4,745 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi
Reference330_Unidentified_boy_halfle_1848

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