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Artist
Unidentified Artist
Sitter
Horace Greeley, 3 Feb 1811 - 29 Nov 1872
Date
c. 1850
Type
Photograph
Medium
Quarter-plate daguerreotype
Dimensions
Image/Sight: 9 × 6.6 cm (3 9/16 × 2 5/8")
Mat (brass): 10.8 × 8.2 cm (4 1/4 × 3 1/4")
Case open: 12 × 19.4 × 1 cm (4 3/4 × 7 5/8 × 3/8")
Case closed: 12 × 9.7 × 2.1 cm (4 3/4 × 3 13/16 × 13/16")
Topic
Interior
Costume\Dress Accessory\Glove
Costume\Headgear\Hat\Top hat
Personal Attribute\Facial Hair\Beard
Home Furnishings\Blanket
Cased object
Horace Greeley: Male
Horace Greeley: Politics and Government\Presidential candidate
Horace Greeley: Journalism and Media\Magazine publisher
Horace Greeley: Journalism and Media\Newspaper publisher
Horace Greeley: Journalism and Media\Journalist\Reporter\Newspaper
Horace Greeley: Society and Social Change\Reformer\Abolitionist
Portrait
Credit Line
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
