[Fernando Wood, head-and-shoulders portrait, three-quarters to left, eyes front] [graphic].
Brady, Mathew B., approximately 1823-1896.
still image
Portrait photographs 1840-1860. gmgpc
Daguerreotypes 1840-1860. gmgpc
[ca. 1855]
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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 face of plate: 78. Scratched on back of plate: 104; Vice Prest. King.
New identification based on similarity to engraving by J.C. Buttre, after a daguerreotype by Brady, published in the United States Magazine and Democractic Review, January 1855. (Source: Identification made by Frederick Rock, 2010.)
Formerly identified as William R. King, Vice President of the United States, 1852-1853.
U.S. War College;
Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).
Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.
Wood, Fernando, 1812-1881.
Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress)
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c09926
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b08791
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a55005
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