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LL/112300
Southworth & Hawes
1855 (ca)
[Half-length portrait of an unidentified seated adult female]

Daguerreotype, 1/2 plate
Library of the Boston Athenaeum
Call number: Prints and Photographs Dept. (photo) UTB-2 5.4 (no.10)
 
Half-length frontal portrait of a seated adult female. She is wearing a dark v-neck dress with lace collar and brooch over a white blouse. Her hair is parted in the middle and pulled back behind her head revealing her earrings.
 
This half-plate daguerreotype is covered with a bronze oval mat with textured pattern around opening. The mat is cover with glass and lacks protector. The entire daguerreotype is contained in a dark-brown, slightly concave, double elliptical thermoplastic and wood frame.
 
LL/112300


 

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