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TITLE: [Henry Clay, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]

CALL NUMBER: DAG no. 135

Original served by appointment only.

REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-109953 (b&w film copy neg. post-1992) LC-USZ62-28276 (b&w film copy neg. pre-1992) LC-USZ62-27725 (b&w film copy neg. pre-1992) No known restrictions on publication.

SUMMARY: Republican Senator from Kentucky, 1806-1807, 1810-1811; Congressman, 1811-1814, 1815-1821, 1823-1825; U.S. Secretary of State, 1825-1829; Whig Senator, 1831-1842, 1849-1852; Democratic Republican candidate for President, 1824; National Republican candidate for President, 1832; Whig candidate for President, 1844.

MEDIUM: 1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype.

CREATED/PUBLISHED: [between 1850 and 1852]

RELATED NAMES:

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

NOTES:

Scratched on back of plate: 135; Henry Clay.

Identification from engraving by William G. Jackman with daguerrean credit to Brady, Reproduced in Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography, v. 1 (New York: 1887, opp. pg. 641).

Facing the light / H. Pfister. Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1978, p. 307.

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:

Clay, Henry, 1777-1852.

FORMAT:

Portrait photographs 1850-1860. Daguerreotypes 1850-1860.

PART OF: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress)

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

DIGITAL ID: (b&w film copy neg. post-1992) cph 3c09953 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c09953 (b&w film copy neg. pre-1992) cph 3a29055 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a29055 (b&w film copy neg. pre-1992) cph 3a28515 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a28515

CARD #: 2004663904

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