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[Gertrude M. Hubbard with baby] – Historic Photograph Print

[Gertrude M. Hubbard with baby], [between 1855 and 1859] — historic photograph
[Gertrude M. Hubbard with baby], [between 1855 and 1859]. Historic photograph from the Daguerreotypes & Early Photography collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Step back in time with [Gertrude M. Hubbard with baby], a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Few daguerreotypes in the Library of Congress carry a family connection as direct as this one. It shows Gertrude Mercer McCurdy Hubbard with a baby, and she later became the mother-in-law of Alexander Graham Bell. The sixth-plate image sits in a plain leather case with a push-button closure and bears the maker's hallmark "Rinhart." Made between 1855 and 1859, it dates from the final years of the daguerreotype's popularity, just before paper prints and glass negatives took over portraiture. The photographer is unidentified, but the image forms part of the Gilbert H. Grosvenor collection of Bell family photographs.

Created / published[between 1855 and 1859]
Medium1 photograph : sixth plate daguerreotype.
GenrePortrait photographs 1850-1860.Daguerreotypes 1850-1860.
NotesPhotographer unidentified. Hallmark: Rinhart 20a. Case: plain leather, push button. Transfer; Manuscript Division; 1975; (DLC/PP-1975:199). Forms part of: Gilbert H. Grosvenor collection of Photographs of the Alexander Graham Bell Family (Library of Congress). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsHubbard, Gertrude Mercer McCurdy,--1827-1909.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,281 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference593_Gertrude_M_Hubbard_with_1855

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