If you’ve ever popped on over to the White House Historical Association for a look-see at their collection of impressive early photographs of U.S Presidents you might notice something strange.

The booklet they hand out with the photographs contains almost no actual photographs – the same is true for the online copy.

Whether you know or not, the White House is the largest single collector of Daguerreotypes of U.S politicians, Presidents to be exact.  This early photograph technology used to take Presidential Portraits which had slowly started to modernize.

I had originally planned to write a post about these photographs and show you some early stupendous rarely seen photos of Presidents such as John Quincy Adams.

So why publish a booklet anyway then?

This is apparently a picture of James K. Polk.  You will have to use your imagination to figure out what he looked like.

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