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America's First Look into the Camera: Daguerreotype Portraits and Views, 1839-1864

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[Horace Mann, head-and-shoulders portrait, three-quarters to right].

CREATED/PUBLISHED
[between 1844 and 1859]

SUMMARY
Whig and Free Soil Congressman from Massachusetts, 1848-1853; President of Antioch College.

NOTES
Identification from engraving by J.C. Buttre in Barnard's Educational biography, 1859, p. 365.

Scratched on back of plate: 106; Hon. Horace Mann.

Hallmark: Phoenix 40.

Original served by appointment only.

Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920. (DLC/PP-1920:46153).

Forms part of: Daguerreotype Collection (Library of Congress).

Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.

SUBJECTS
Mann, Horace,--1796-1859.
Portrait photographs--1840-1860.
Daguerreotypes--1840-1860.

RELATED NAMES
Brady, Mathew B., 1823 (ca.)-1896.

MEDIUM
1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype, gold toned.

CALL NUMBER
DAG no. 106

REPRODUCTION NUMBER
LC-USZC4-7396 DLC (color film copy transparency)
LC-USZ62-109928 DLC (b&w film copy neg. post-1992)
LC-USZ62-10988 DLC (b&w film copy neg. pre-1992)
LC-USZ62-27723 DLC (b&w film copy neg. pre-1992)

COLLECTION
Daguerreotype Collection (Library of Congress)

REPOSITORY
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

DIGITAL ID
(color film copy transparency) cph 3g07396
(b&w film copy neg.) cph 3c09928
(b&w film copy neg.) cph 3a13389
(b&w film copy neg.) cph 3a28513

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