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Taken for Ramsay when going abroad in 1857, ambrotype
Image: 1/6 plate; Head a shoulders of a woman with hair parted in the center and smoothed down over the head with chin length ringlets covering the ears, wearing a dark bonnet with dark ribbons set back on the head and a dark dress with a white ruffled collar. Preserver: Straight and embossed with s...
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| Collection: | Historical Society of Pennsylvania daguerreotypes and ambrotypes (#3404) |
| Date: | 1857 |
| Dimensions: | 7.0 x 8.2 cm 2 3/4 x 3 7/32 in 8.0 x 9.3 cm 3 1/8 x 3 19/32 in |
| Box Number: | Box 4 |
| Format: | Electronic |
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| Copyright: | Public domain |
| Online Access: | https://digitallibrary.hsp.org/index.php/Detail/objects/6659 |
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Image: 1/6 plate; Head a shoulders of a woman with hair parted in the center and smoothed down over the head with chin length ringlets covering the ears, wearing a dark bonnet with dark ribbons set back on the head and a dark dress with a white ruffled collar. Preserver: Straight and embossed with simple pattern (after 1850). Mat: Oval with matte finish and simple embossed design (1850). Case: Leather covered wood frame embossed with a simple lined edge trim on the front and back exterior, with a gilded interior edge trim, a red velvet pinchpad, and a ruby red plain (unembossed) velvet cushion (ca. 1850). |
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