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[Wendell Phillips, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left]

Case: oval surrounded by flowers and scrolls. Embossed in velvet: Brady's Gallery 205 & 359 Broadway, New York. Purchase; 2000; (DLC/PP-2000:091). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).

[Family of W.Y. McAllister] - Public domain portrait photograph

Written on back: "4 of the children of W.Y. McAllister. Taken 1854 or 1855." Purchase; Marian S. Carson; 1997; (DLC/PP-1997:105). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Forms part of: Ma... More

[Unidentified man, head-and-shoulders portrait]

Case: oval surrounded by scrolls. Barboza number: 6019.040. Stamped on brass mat: F. Grice. Purchase; Anthony Barboza; 1999; (DLC/PP-1999:022). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).

[Unidentified woman, three-quarters length portrait, seated in chair w...

Case: Rinhart 262. Stamped on brass mat: F. Grice. Barboza number: 6019.054. Purchase; Anthony Barboza; 1999; (DLC/PP-1999:022). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).

[Mabel Hubbard Gardiner Bell as a girl, half-length portrait, facing f...

Photographer unidentified. Hallmark: Rinhart 20a. Case: plain leather, push button. Transfer; Manuscript Division; 1975; (DLC/PP-1975:199). Forms part of: Gilbert H. Grosvenor collection of Photographs of the A... More

[Mabel Hubbard as a girl, full-length portrait, seated on chair]

Photographer unidentified. Case: central floral motif surrounded by scrolls. Accompanying note: Mabel G. Hubbard. Transfer; Manuscript Division; 1975; (DLC/PP-1975:199). Forms part of: Gilbert H. Grosvenor coll... More

Helen L. Gilson, Civil War nurse and head of the Colored Hospital Serv...

Photograph shows portrait of Helen Louise Gilson, also known as Helen Louise Gilson Osgood, who cared for wounded and dying soldiers at battles including Yorktown, Antietam, Gettysburg, Fredericksburg, Chancell... More

[Joseph Story, half-length portrait, facing front, with spectacles]

Republican Congressman from Massachusetts, 1808-1809; Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1811-1845; Acting Chief Justice, 1835-1836, 1844; Professor of Law Harvard University 1829-1845... More

[Unidentified woman, half-length portrait, facing front, holding a cop...

Photographer unidentified. Case: back only, oval surrounded by scroll motif. Purchase; 1996; (DLC/PP-1996:031). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Published under title "Temperance a... More

[View of a horse and covered cart in front of white frame building wit...

Photographer unidentified, possibly L.J. Phillips. Phillips was active in Connecticut in the mid-1850s. His cloth sign most likely indicates that he worked as an itinerant daguerreotypist. Daguerrian researche... More

[Children of Lt. Montgomery C. Meigs, in donkey cart with dog, probabl...

Photographer unidentified. Hallmark: Rinhart 46c. Case: variant of Rinhart 131. Illegible inscription scratched on back of plate. Accompanying note in case: The children of Lt. M.C. Meigs, Eng. Corp U.S.A. take... More

[President's house (i.e. White House), Washington, D.C., showing south...

Purchase; 1972; (DLC/PP-1972:R01.2). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Exhibit loan 4105-L.

[C.H. Hicks, in profile, seated at desk]

Photographer unidentified. Written on back of plate: C. H. Hicks. Eng. Clerk of the Hs. of Rep. Was part of LOT 8554. Transfer; Manuscript Division. Forms part of: American Colonization Society Records, 1792-19... More

[James Alfred Pearce, head-and-shoulders portrait, nearly facing front...

Whig Congressman from Maryland, 1835-1839, 1841-1843; Whig and Democratic Senator, 1843-1862. Scratched on back of plate: 147. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920. (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype... More

[John Francis, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the right]

Physician; editor of American Medical and Philosophical Register; first president of the New York Academy of Medicine; historian and author. Scratched on back of plate: 78; 158 [canceled] Transfer; U.S. War Col... More

[James Buchanan, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the left]

U.S. President. Identification from an engraving by S.F. Baker in Frank Leslie's Illustrated News, May 3, 1856, p. 321. Scratched on back of plate: 428. Corners trimmed. DAG no. 225 is a possible copy of this i... More

[Unidentified man, half-length portrait, with arm resting on table wit...

Case: back only - ornate cross design. Stamped on brass mat: F. Grice. Hallmark: Rinhart 29. Barboza number: 6019.050. Purchase; Anthony Barboza; 1999; (DLC/PP-1999:022). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection... More

[Thomas Corwin, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the left]

Whig Congressman from Ohio, 1831-1840; Governor of Ohio, 1840-1842; Senator, 1845-1850; U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, 1850-1853; Republican Congressman, 1858-1861. Scratched on face of plate: 156. Scratched o... More

[Occupational portrait of a salesman, three-quarter length, seated, di...

Photographer unidentified. Hallmark: Rinhart 46c. Case: back only, mixed flowers surrounded by scrolls. Purchase/exchange; Gary Vroegindewey; 1981; (DLC/PP-1981:380R.16). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection... More

[Unidentified woman, half-length portrait]

Case: front - Rinhart 262; back - Rinhart 91. Transfer; Manuscript Division (John Franklin Jameson papers); 2004; (DLC/PP-2004:022). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Forms part of:... More

[Rembrandt Lockwood, half-length portrait, three-quarters to right, ey...

Scratched on face of plate: 210; Lockwood, artist. Scratched on back of plate: 140. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920. (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produce... More

[Unidentified man, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the left]

Alternatively identified as Alfred F. Russell based on similarity to DAG no. 1011. Was part of LOT 8554. Stamped on brass mat: A. Washington 136 Main St. Hartford Ct. Transfer; Manuscript Division. Forms part o... More

[Joseph Jenkins Roberts, half-length portrait, full face]

Roberts arrived in Liberia in 1829 from Virginia. In 1839 Roberts was appointed Vice Colonial Governor of the Commonwealth of Liberia and took over as Governor of the Commonwealth, in 1841, when Thomas Buchanan... More

[Andrew Jackson, half-length portrait, three-quarters to right]

President of the United States. Copy daguerreotype. Scratched on face of plate: 151; Andrew Jackson. Scratched on back of plate: 43. Reproduced as frontispiece in the Democratic Review for September 1845 and la... More

[Abraham Lincoln, Congressman-elect from Illinois. Three-quarter lengt...

This daguerreotype is the earliest-known photograph of Abraham Lincoln, taken at age 37 when he was a frontier lawyer in Springfield and Congressman-elect from Illinois. (Source: Ostendorf, p. 4) Attributed to... More

[United States Capitol, Washington, D.C., east front elevation]

Purchase; 1972; (DLC/PP-1972:R01.4). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Published in: Viewpoints; a selection from the pictorial collections of the Library of Congress .... Washingt... More

[Jenny Lind, three-quarter length portrait of a woman, three-quarters ...

Identification based on a lithograph of Lind copyrighted in 1850 by D'avignon from a Brady daguerreotype." Date provided by researcher George Jones, 2007. Produced by Mathew Brady's studio. This daguerreotype h... More

W. Mitchell McAllister in his nurses lap

Plain leather grain frame. Written on back: W. Mitchel [i.e., Mitchell] McAllister in his nurse's lap. Taken by his father W.Y. McAllister in the yard of his house Sansom St. above 8th. Mar. 25, 1844. Etched on... More

[Robert John Walker, half-length portrait, three-quarters to right]

Democratic Senator from Mississippi, 1835-1845; Secretary of the Treasury, 1845-1849. Scratched on back of plate: 56. Identification from mezzotint by T. Doney. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920. (DLC/PP-1920:46... More

[Lyman Beecher, half-length portrait, facing front]

Presbyterian minister. Scratched on face of plate: 122. Scratched on back of plate: 149. Facing the light / H. Pfister. Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1978, p. 297. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920... More

[Unidentified man, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]

Case: back only - zigzag design. Barboza number: 6019.027. Stamped on brass mat: J. P. Ball, Cincinnati. Purchase; Anthony Barboza; 1999; (DLC/PP-1999:022). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).

[White frame house with white picket fence at Cambridge, New York, wit...

Case: similar to Rinhart 108. Mirror inside case to show house in correct orientation. Labels adhered to seal: "Cambridge, New York," "46". Purchase; Marian S. Carson; 1998; (DLC/PP-1998:151.20). Forms part of:... More

[Unidentified man, friend of Clara Barton, head-and-shoulders portrait...

Photographer unidentified. Case: variant of Rinhart 123. Accompanying label: Unidentified friend of C.B. Accompanying lock of hair. Was part of LOT 8492. Transfer; Manuscript Division; 1959. Forms part of: Clar... More

[Isaiah Lukens, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left]

Brass mat stamped: R. Cornelius, Philada. fecit. Case: green embossed leather; pressure sensitive label on case "#2." Robert Cornelius: Portraits from the dawn of photography / Stapp. Smithsonian Institution Pr... More

Lucy Stone, head-and-shoulders portrait of a woman, facing front

Photographer unidentified. Case: floral motif. Forms part of: Visual materials from the Blackwell family papers. Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Transfer; Manuscript Division; 20... More

[Unidentified woman, half-length portrait, seated, facing front]

Photographer unidentified. Case: front made by LC conservation office; back variant of Rinhart 131. Source unknown. Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).

[James Duncan, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left]

Colonel, U.S. Army. Photographer unidentified. Identification based on DAG no. 328. Transfer; Manuscript Division; 1993; (DLC/PP-1993:136). Forms part of: Henry Jackson Hunt Papers, 1841-1978 (Library of Congre... More

[Emlen Cresson, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]

Printed on yellow paper label pasted to the paper seal: Daguerreotype miniatures, by R. Cornelius, Eighth Street, above Chesnut [sic], Philadelphia. Written on paper seal: E. Cresson, May 30th, 1840. In cast b... More

[Mr. Miller, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]

Photographer unidentified. Hallmark: [illegible]. Case: Krainik 277. Accompanying note: Father and mother of Watts Todd Miller, husband of Olive Thorne Miller (Harriet Mann Miller). Housed with DAG no. 1228. Tr... More

[Group portrait of an unidentified boy and girl, three-quarter length,...

Photographer unidentified. Hallmark: Rinhart 46. Case: metal case with leather insert, variant of Rinhart 90, Source unknown. Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).

[Unidentified man, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right]

Hallmark: 40 [paschal lamb]. Case: back only, central floral design within floral wreath. Gift; Mrs. Alexander Macomb; 1976; (DLC/PP-1976:307). Forms part of: Rodgers Family Papers, 1740-1977 (Library of Congre... More

[Copy of a painting of an unidentified woman, head-and-shoulders portr...

Photographer unidentified. Hallmark: Rinhart 13a. Case: front, variant of Rinhart 140; plain back. Source unknown. Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).

[Unidentified man, about 40 years of age, half-length portrait, nearly...

Scratched on back of plate: 311. Corners trimmed. Hallmark: Lerebour. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Bra... More

[Joshua R. Giddings, half-length poirtrait, facing slightly right]

Congressman from Ohio, 1838-1859. Scratched on back of plate: 322. Copy daguerreotype. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produ... More

[Israel T. Hatch, half-length portrait, slightly to right, eyes front]

Democratic Congressman from New York, 1857-1859. Scratched on face of plate: 189: Hatch. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Pro... More

[Levi Woodbury, half-length portrait, head three-quarters to the right...

Governor of New Hampshire, 1823-1824; Democratic Senator, 1825-1831, 1841-1845; Secretary of the Navy, 1831-1834; Secretary of the Treasury, 1834-1841; Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1845-1851. Sc... More

[Unidentified man, about 35 years of age, head-and-shoulders portrait,...

Vignetted at bottom. Scratched on back of plate: 23. Corners rounded. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Bra... More

[Pliny Earle, three-quarters to left]

Author and physician. Identification from Sanborn's Life of Earle. Scratched on face of plate: 39; Earle. Scratched on back of plate: 113 Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Da... More

[Ruth Fitts, three-quarter length portrait of a woman, full face]

Photographer unidentified. Hallmark: Rinhart 32. Case: variant of Rinhart 124. Accompanying label: Ruth Fitz (Mrs. Chester Fitz) of Charlton. Was part of LOT 8492. Transfer; Manuscript Division; 1959. Forms par... More

[Unidentified man, about 45 years of age, half-length portrait, slight...

Alternative identification: Fitzpatrick (cat. 5). Scratched on face of plate: 33; Fitzpatrick. Scratched on back of plate: 292; Sen from [?] Identified by Owen Blevins 4/2017 based on similar image in the Biogr... More

[Freeman Hunt, half-length portrait, slightly to the left]

Journalist, author, publisher. Manuscript label on cover glass: Mr. Hunt. Scratched on back of plate: 399. Edges trimmed. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype coll... More

[Unidentified cadet in Virginia Military Institute uniform]

Case: Rinhart, no. 138 (reverse image). Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2012; (DLC/PP-2012:127). Purchased from: Bill Turner, La Plata, Maryland, 2012. Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photogra... More

House N.W. corner of Chestnut and Strawberry Alley

Case: Burns's Monument. Label attached to case: By W.Y. McAllister about 1845. Label attached to case: N.W. Chestnut & Strawberry. Title etched on plate. Purchase; Marian S. Carson; 1999; (DLC/PP-1999:126). For... More

[Portrait of an unidentified woman with two parts in her hair] / C. Fi...

Case: scroll design. "C. Fischer, 1845" engraved on the daguerreotype plate. "C. Fischer" may be a pseudonym for a German person of nobility. Purchase; 2007; (DLC/PP-2007:103.3). Forms part of: Daguerreotype c... More

[Unidentified man, about 50 years of age, head-and-shoulders portrait,...

Scratched on back of plate: 194. Hallmark: Rinhart 21. Same sitter as DAG no. 177. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced ... More

[Unidentified man, possibly Hosea Curtice, seated in chair, facing fro...

No electronic surrogate available. Case: back only Rinhart 144. Stamped on brass mat: Senter, Auburn. Paper note with daguerreotype: "Hosea Curtice." Transfer, Mauscript Division (Cooper Curtice Papers); 2001; ... More

[William Y. McAllister with wife, full-length, seated in decorative ch...

Purchase; Marian S. Carson; 1997; (DLC/PP-1997:105). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection (Library of Congress)

[William Y. McAllister, half-length, seated]

Purchase; Marian S. Carson; 1997; (DLC/PP-1997:105). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection (Library of Congress)

Portrait photo of [Bust of William Robertson Grant]

Written on back: Plaster bust, Dr. W. R. Grant. Purchase; Marian S. Carson; 1997; (DLC/PP-1997:105). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection (Li... More

[Unidentified woman, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the left,...

Alternative identification: Mary Woodburn Greeley. Hallmark: Rinhart 9. Same sitter as DAG no. 528X. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Co... More

[Unidentified woman, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the left,...

Alternative identification: Mary Woodburn Greeley. Hallmark: Rinhart 9. Same sitter as DAG no. 393. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Con... More

[Unidentified member of the Calwater Grays, a company of the 1st Regim...

Case: back - Rinhart 257. Stamped on brass mat: C. Evans, Philad'a. No electronic surrogate available. Label adhered to case: "59". Label adhered to cover glass: "63". Purchase; Marian S. Carson; 1998; (DLC/PP-... More

[Stephen Whitney, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the right, f...

Scratched on face of plate: 32. Scratched on back of plate: EPD July 4, 1855. Corners trimmed. Alternative identification: E.P. Dean. Identified by Owen Blevins 8/2014 based on engraving made from daguerreotype... More

[Unidentified man, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]

Case: Rinhart 97. Barboza number: 6019.036. Stamped on brass mat: F. Grice. Purchase; Anthony Barboza; 1999; (DLC/PP-1999:022). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).

[Portrait of an unidentified woman with a fan]

Case: Floral design. Purchase; 2007; (DLC/PP-2007:103.1). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).

[Unidentified man, about 60 years of age, half-length portrait, three-...

Identification from DAG 431A which was identified from a woodcut engraving from an ambrotype by Brady in Harper's Weekly, June 6, 1857, p. 357. Scratched on face of plate: 64. Scratched on back of plate: 80. Tr... More

[Robert Cornelius, self-portrait; believed to be the earliest extant A...

Daguerre announced his invention of a photographic method to the French Academy of Sciences in August 1839. That October, a young Philadelphian, Robert Cornelius, working out of doors to take advantage of the l... More

[William Hickling Prescott, half-length portrait, three-quarters to th...

Historian, author. Scratched on back of plate: 432. Hallmark: Rinhart 4b. Identification from a lithograph by Francois d'Avignon, plate 8 in Charles Edwards Lester's Gallery of illustrious Americans, 1850, publ... More

[Fernando Wood, head-and-shoulders portrait, three-quarters to left, e...

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... More

[Unidentified man with moustache, half-length portrait, full face]

Photographer unidentified. Was part of LOT 8554. Transfer; Manuscript Division. Forms part of: American Colonization Society Records, 1792-1964 (Library of Congress). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Li... More

[Unidentified man, possibly Lyman Fiske, head-and-shoulders portrait, ...

Photographer unidentified. Case: double case, variant of Rinhart 139. Scratched on back of plate: L.F. Accompanying note: Lyman Fiske, father, Harrison Grey Fiske. Transfer; Manuscript Division; 1962; (DLC/PP-1... More

[Unidentified man, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right, seated i...

Case: Rinhart 93. Hallmark: Rinhart 10. Barboza number: 6019.033. Stamped on brass mat: Ball & Thomas, 120 W 4th St. Cin. O. Purchase; Anthony Barboza; 1999; (DLC/PP-1999:022). Forms part of: Daguerreotype coll... More

[Pierre Soulé, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the left]

Democratic Senator from Louisiana, 1847-1853; French liberal exile; political adventurer; U.S. Minister to Spain, 1853-1855. Scratched on face of plate: 43. Scratched on back of plate: 203. Transfer; U.S. War C... More

[Thomas Starr King, half-length portrait, three-quarters to right, eye...

Unitarian pastor, statesman, author. Identification from engraving in J.C. Buttre's American Portrait Gallery, 1877, v.1, [p. 61] Scratched on back of plate: 142; Rev. Thos. Starr King. Transfer; U.S. War Colle... More

[Portsmouth Square, San Francisco, California]

Case: delicate roses, variant. Attribution to McIntyre and year photographed from Mike Robinson, Daguerreian Annual, 2013. Signs in image include: California Restaurant, Book and Job Printing, Louisiana, Socied... More

[Unidentified man, half-length portrait, facing left, seated in chair]

Case: mixed flowers surrounded by scrolls. Hallmark: partially cut off. Appears to be Rinhart 29. Barboza number: 6019.046. Purchase; Anthony Barboza; 1999; (DLC/PP-1999:022). Forms part of: Daguerreotype colle... More

[Two portraits of Sarah Allister McAllister Grant. Right plate: head-a...

Image on left plate is barely visible. Paper label attached to case: Sarah by W.Y.M., 184? Inscription on left plate: "Taken in 1843 at 45 Sansom St. by W.Y. McAllister." Hallmark on both plates: iron cross sh... More

[Two portraits of Sarah Allister McAllister Grant. Right plate: head-a...

[Roger S. Baldwin, three-quarter length portrait, facing slightly left...

Whig Senator from Connecticut, 1847-1851; Governor of Connecticut, 1844-1846. Scratched on back of plate: 5; Sen. Baldwin, Con. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotyp... More

[Hopkins Lacey Turney, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the lef...

Democratic Congressman from Tennessee, 1837-1843; Senator, 1845-1851. Scratched on face of plate: 161. Scratched on back of plate: Sen. Turney, Tenn. Hallmark: 40M. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920. (DLC/PP-192... More

[Solon Borland, half-length portrait, facing three-quarters left]

Democratic Senator from Arkansas, 1848-1853. Identification from woodcut in Gleason's Pictorial, March 5, 1853, page 152. Scratched on back of plate: 130; Sen. Borland, Arkansas. Transfer; U.S. War College; 192... More

[Unidentified man, possibly Asher Brown Durand, half-length portrait, ...

Alternative identification: Galusha Aaron Grow. Scratched on back of plate: 223. Corners rounded. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congr... More

[Unidentified man, possibly Asher Brown Durand, half-length portrait, ...

[John Hanson, three-quarter length portrait, three-quarters view, wear...

Photographer unidentified. Was part of LOT 8554. Written on back of plate: John Hanson, Senator from Bassa Co. Transfer; Manuscript Division. Forms part of: American Colonization Society Records, 1792-1964 (Lib... More

[George Washington Crawford, half-length portrait, three-quarters to t...

Whig Congressman from Georgia, 1843; Governor of Georgia 1843-1847; U.S. Secretary of War, 1849-1850. Alternative identification: G.W. Cramp (cat. 5). Written in ink on back of plate: 464; G.W. Crawford. Identi... More

[Foremen, Phoenix Fire Company and Mechanic Fire Company, Charleston, ...

Back of case: mixed flowers surrounded by scrolls. Labels on case: "55," "53". Purchase; Marian S. Carson; 1998; (DLC/PP-1998:151.16). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Forms part o... More

[Occupational portrait of a salesman, three-quarter length, seated, di...

[Edwin Forrest, head-and-shoulders portrait, nearly in profile to the ...

Actor. Copy of DAG no. 55, reversed and slightly enlarged. Scratched on face of plate: 48. In pencil on back of plate: 42. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype col... More

[Joseph Jenkins Roberts, half-length portrait, full face]

[Samuel Hanson Cox, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the left]

Scratched on back of plate: 33 [cancelled]; 53 [cancelled]; 54. Hallmark: Rinhart 9. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produce... More

[Cornelius Mathews, half-length portrait, facing front, wearing specta...

Writer. Scratched on back of plate: 164 [canceled]; 174. Written in pencil on back of plate: 359; Cornelius (?). Corners trimmed. Identification from an engraving by Roberts in Duyckinck, Cyclopaedia of America... More

[John M. Clayton, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the left]

Whig Senator from Delaware, 1829-1836, 1845-1849, 1853-1856; U.S. Secretary of State, 1849-1850. Scratched on back of plate: 15; Hon. John M. Clayton (Del.), Sec'y State Prest. Taylor's Cabinet/John M.Clayton, ... More

[Captain Samuel Hamilton Walker, half-length portrait, facing slightly...

Texas Ranger. Scratched on face of plate: 94; Capt. Walker. In pencil on back of plate: 199. Identification from mezzotint by A.B. Walter from a daguerreotype by M.P. Simons. Hallmark: Rinhart 46. Transfer; U.S... More

[Stephen Allen Benson, head-and-shoulders portrait, three-quarters to ...

Second president of Liberia. Was part of LOT 8554. Hallmark: [Dou]ble [Pascal lamb]. Stamped on brass mat: A. Washington 136 Main St. Hartford Ct. Transfer; Manuscript Division. Forms part of: American Coloniza... More

[Cassius Marcellus Clay, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the r...

U.S. Minister to Russia. Scratched on back of plate: Cassius M. Clay. Column in background indicates could possibly be by Southworth and Hawes. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part ... More

[Edward J. Roye, three-quarter length portrait, standing, with hand ra...

Liberian Senator, 1856- Photographer unidentified. Written on back of plate: Ed. J. Roye, Senator from Montserrado Co. Was part of LOT 8554. Transfer; Manuscript Division. Forms part of: American Colonization S... More

[John Bell, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left, eyes fr...

Whig Congressman from Tennessee, 1827-1841; Secretary of War, 1841; Senator, 1847-1859. Scratched on back of plate: Bell, Hon. John, Tenn. Hallmark: [asterisk] Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:461... More

[Unidentified woman and girl, seated, facing front]

Case: oval surrounded by scrolls. Stamped on brass mat: F. Grice. Barboza number: 6019.065. Purchase; Anthony Barboza; 1999; (DLC/PP-1999:022). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).

[Philip Phillips, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the left]

Democratic Congressman from Alabama, 1853-1855. Possibly a copy daguerreotype. Scratched on back of plate: 206. Hallmark: Rinhart 4c. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920. (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguer... More

[Occupational portrait of a cooper, three-quarter length, with barrel ...

Photographer unidentified. Case: back only, variant of Rinhart 114. Possibly a copy daguerreotype. Purchase/exchange; Gary Vroegindewey; 1981; (DLC/PP-1981:380R.19). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Lib... More

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