[Henry Clay, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front] [graphic].
Brady, Mathew B., approximately 1823-1896.
still image
Portrait photographs 1850-1860. gmgpc
Daguerreotypes 1850-1860. gmgpc
[between 1850 and 1852]
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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.
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,
U.S. War College;
Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).
Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.
Clay, Henry, 1777-1852.
Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress)
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