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[Mrs. Miller, head-and-shoulders portrait of a woman, facing front] – Vintage Wall Art

[Mrs. Miller, head-and-shoulders portrait of a woman, facing front], [between 1840 and 1860] — historic photograph
[Mrs. Miller, head-and-shoulders portrait of a woman, facing front], [between 1840 and 1860]. 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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A small sixth-plate daguerreotype shows a woman in a head-and-shoulders view, facing the camera, and an accompanying note identifies her as the mother of Watts Todd Miller. Her son's wife was Olive Thorne Miller, the naturalist and writer whose real name was Harriet Mann Miller. The plate dates from between 1840 and 1860, when daguerreotypes were the leading form of portraiture and each was a unique, mirror-bright image often kept in a small cased frame. The photographer is unidentified and the hallmark is illegible, so the maker remains unknown.

Created / published[between 1840 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : sixth plate daguerreotype.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860.
NotesPhotographer unidentified. Hallmark: [illegible]. Case: Krainik 277. Accompanying note: Father and mother of Watts Todd Miller, husband of Olive Thorne Miller (Harriet Mann Miller). Housed with DAG no. 1227. Transfer; Manuscript Division; 1993; (DLC/PP-1993:137). Forms part of: Harriet Mann Miller Papers, 1891-1909 (Library of Congress). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,292 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference275_Mrs_Miller_headandshoul_1840

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