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[Fernando Wood, head-and-shoulders portrait, three-quarters to left, eyes front]
Summary
Photo shows Fernando Wood, Mayor of New York, 1855-57 and 1860-62, and Democratic Representative to Congress for New York state, 1841-1843, 1863-1865, and 1867-1881.
Possibly a copy daguerreotype.
Scratched on face of plate: 78. Scratched on back of plate: 104; Vice Prest. King.
New identification based on similarity to engraving by J.C. Buttre, after a daguerreotype by Brady, published in the United States Magazine and Democractic Review, January 1855. (Source: Identification made by Frederick Rock, 2010.)
Formerly identified as William R. King, Vice President of the United States, 1852-1853.
Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920. (DLC/PP-1920:46153).
Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).
Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.
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