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John Quincy Adams
Credit: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Gift of I. N. Phelps Stokes, Edward S. Hawes, Alice Mary Hawes, and Marion Augusta Hawes, 1937.
Original Author: Southworth and Hawes copy of a Philip Haas original
Created: ca. 1850 copy of 1843 original
Medium: Daguerreotype

John Quincy Adams

John Quincy Adams, the sixth president of the United States, is the subject of this daguerreotype copy portrait. Philip Haas took the originlal daguerreotype in 1843, but this image, made by the Boston photographic firm of Southworth and Hawes about 1850, is a copy of it. The Haas original has been lost.

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