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English: The first photographic portrait image of a human ever produced.

"Robert Cornelius, head-and-shoulders [self-]portrait, facing front, with arms crossed", approximate quarter plate daguerreotype, 1839 [Oct. or Nov.]. LC-USZC4-5001 DLC

Also see: Library of Congress, American Memory, complete source description.
Español: El primer retrato fotográfico de un humano de la historia.
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This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division
under the digital ID cph.3f04912.
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Library of Congress; Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons., Original uploader was Blackmagictea at en.wikipedia, 2006-07-17 (original upload date)
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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1927.

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Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current14:00, 15 October 2009Thumbnail for version as of 14:00, 15 October 20092,006 × 2,633 (1.47 MB)Earthsoundslightly larger crop of uncompressed archival TIFF version of cph 3g05001, converted to JPG
17:54, 2 June 2009Thumbnail for version as of 17:54, 2 June 20091,983 × 2,585 (572 KB)AutopilotLibrary of Congress item cph 3f04912 is even higher resolution. Crop from the archival TIFF.
17:46, 2 June 2009Thumbnail for version as of 17:46, 2 June 2009758 × 993 (104 KB)AutopilotSlightly higher resolution version generated from the archival TIFF at the library of congress.
14:54, 27 March 2009Thumbnail for version as of 14:54, 27 March 2009552 × 731 (266 KB)EarthsoundThis is a larger version from Library of Congress with greater detail and cropped tighter around the image.
14:52, 27 March 2009Thumbnail for version as of 14:52, 27 March 2009590 × 775 (66 KB)Earthsound{{Information |Description={{en|The first photographic portrait image of a human ever produced. "Robert Cornelius, head-and-shoulders [self-]portrait, facing front, with arms crossed", approximate quarter plate daguerreotype, 1839 [Oct. or Nov.]. LC-USZC

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