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

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[James Knox Polk, three-quarter length portrait, three-quarters to the right, seated].

Brady, Mathew B., 1823 (ca.)-1896, photographer.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
[1849 Feb. 14]

SUMMARY
President of the United States, 1845-1849.

NOTES
Hallmark: 40M.

Reference: Facing the light / H. Pfister. Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1978, p. 343.

Original served by appointment only.

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

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

Published in: Viewpoints; a selection from the pictorial collections of the Library of Congress .... Washington : Library of Congress ..., 1975, no. 73.

Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.

SUBJECTS
Polk, James K.--(James Knox),--1795-1849.
Portrait photographs--1840-1850.
Daguerreotypes--1840-1850.

MEDIUM
1 photograph : whole plate daguerreotype, gold toned.

CALL NUMBER
DAG no. 391

REPRODUCTION NUMBER
LC-USZC4-6742 DLC (color film copy transparency)
LC-USZ62-110137 DLC (b&w film copy neg. post-1992)
LC-USZ62-27728 DLC (b&w film copy neg. pre-1992)
LC-USZ62-9062 DLC (b&w film copy neg. pre-1982)

SPECIAL TERMS OF USE
No known restrictions on publication.

PART OF
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 3g06742 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g06742
(b&w film copy neg. post-1992) cph 3c10137 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c10137
(b&w film copy neg. pre-1992) cph 3a28518 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a28518
(b&w film copy neg. pre-1992) cph 3a11573 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a11573

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