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[Unidentified woman, half-length portrait, facing front, seated in chair with arm resting on table with tablecloth] – Historic Photograph Print

[Unidentified woman, half-length portrait, facing front, seated in chair with arm resting on table with tablecloth], [between 1848 and 1860] — historic photograph
[Unidentified woman, half-length portrait, facing front, seated in chair with arm resting on table with tablecloth], [between 1848 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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[Unidentified woman, half-length portrait, facing front, seated in chair with arm resting on table with tablecloth]

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The most telling detail is the label inside the back of the case, which names Wm. Shew, a miniature case maker and dealer in daguerreotype apparatus on Court Street in Boston, opposite the head of Hanover Street. Shew supplied cases and materials to working daguerreotypists, so the label connects this portrait to the busy commercial trade in Boston in the late 1840s and 1850s. The woman sits half-length with one arm resting on a draped table, a common pose of the period, and the sixth-plate size was a popular choice for small portraits. The photographer is unidentified, but the case's hallmark and scrolled oval frame help date the object and suggest where it was made.

Created / published[between 1848 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : sixth plate daguerreotype.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860.
NotesPhotographer unidentified. Hallmark: Rinhart 49. Case: front, central oval surrounded by scroll; back, variant of Rinhart 123. Accompanying label inside back of case: Wm. Shew, miniature case maker and dealer in daguerreotype apparatus and materials. Court Street opposite the head of Hanover St., Boston. Gift; Laurence G. Hoes; 1958. Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,223 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference513_Unidentified_woman_half_1848

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