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Woman wearing a brooch and lace collar daguerreotype, 1859
Image: 1/6 plate; Head and shoulders of a woman with hair parted in the center, in loose waves around her face, wearing a dark dress with a wide whitework collar that does not meet at the front, with a brooch clasped at her throat. Preserver: Straight but more ornate (1850s). Mat: Oval with matte fi...
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| Collection: | Historical Society of Pennsylvania daguerreotypes and ambrotypes (#3404) |
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| Date: | 1859 |
| Dimensions: | 7.0 x 8.2 cm 2 3/4 x 3 7/32 in 8.1 x 9.4 cm 3 3/16 x 3 11/16 in |
| Box Number: | Box 2 |
| Format: | Electronic |
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| Copyright: | Public domain |
| Online Access: | https://digitallibrary.hsp.org/index.php/Detail/objects/6605 |
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Image: 1/6 plate; Head and shoulders of a woman with hair parted in the center, in loose waves around her face, wearing a dark dress with a wide whitework collar that does not meet at the front, with a brooch clasped at her throat. Preserver: Straight but more ornate (1850s). Mat: Oval with matte finish and ornate (late 1850s). Case: Leather covered wood frame embossed with a common Thistle Motif [Plate 119 on page 115 of "American Miniature Case Art" by Floyd and Marion Rinhart (Cranbury, New Jersey: A. S. Barnes and Co., Inc., 1969)] on the back, with gilded interior edge trim, and a red velvet pinchpad (ca. 1858). |
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