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DescriptionFrank-Pierce.jpg
English: Daguerreotype of Franklin Pierce (1804–1869), 14th president of the United States. Pierce, a Democrat, served from 1853 to 1857 and was rejected by his party for a second term; his major acts as president include the Gadsden Purchase and the Kansas–Nebraska Act. The image is part of the Daguerreotype Collection of the Library of Congress. The entry describes this version as a "b&w film copy neg. pre-1992".
Date
between 1851 and 1860
date QS:P,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1851-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1860-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
The author died in 1896, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer.