Henry Elias Howland daguerreotype collection

Fifteen daguerreotypes attributed to photographer Mathew B. Brady that depict individual seated portraits of prominent men in the United States consisting of presidents, senators and representatives of the United States Congress, justices of the United States Supreme Court, and governors of states and territories, circa 1848-1850. A folder accompanying the daguerreotypes holds modern copy prints of the images

Ten of the portraits were created in the United States Capitol in March 1849. The sitters include David Rice Atchison, Neill Smith Brown, Andrew Pickens Butler, John Caldwell Calhoun, John Davis, Millard Fillmore, Henry S. Foote, and Nathaniel Pritchard Tallmadge, as well as two justices of the United Supreme Court, Associate Justice John McLean and Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney, who are both pictured wearing their judicial robes

Two portraits depict Zachary Taylor. The portrait of Taylor dressed in a military uniform is a copy photograph of an image originally created during or immediately after the Mexican War, circa 1848. The portrait of Taylor dressed in a civilian suit was created at the White House in March 1849

Three portraits were created in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Henry Clay taken in November 1849, and James Duane Doty and Martin Van Buren, circa 1849-1850