Historical Portrait
People: Daniel Leonard Hayden portrait looking to the side, 1880~
Archive record
Public-domain historical portrait of Daniel Leonard Hayden, early Novato California pioneer from 1880. Formal studio photograph by Jones and Lotz.
About this photograph
This formal studio portrait was made around 1880 by Jones and Lotz, showing Daniel Leonard Hayden in profile. Hayden was an early settler in Novato, California.
The photograph comes from California Revealed, a statewide programme that digitises materials from libraries, archives, museums and historical societies throughout California and makes them publicly accessible. Because the programme works with many separate institutions across the state, the shared source tag indicates where the photograph was digitised rather than its original provenance.
Studio portraiture of this period typically required subjects to hold still for extended exposures. The profile view was a common format in nineteenth-century photography, allowing photographers to capture a person's features in a way that showed character while maintaining the formal conventions of the era.
Compiled from the catalogue record and reference notes on the formats and events involved. The archive record above is the primary source.
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