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[Unidentified woman, about 65 years of age, three-quarter length portrait, nearly profile to the left, seated in chair by table, hands in lap, wearing cap and light gloves] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[Unidentified woman, about 65 years of age, three-quarter length portrait, nearly profile to the left, seated in chair by table, hands in lap, wearing cap and light gloves], [between 1850 and 1860] — historic photograph
[Unidentified woman, about 65 years of age, three-quarter length portrait, nearly profile to the left, seated in chair by table, hands in lap, wearing cap and light gloves], [between 1850 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 woman of about 65 sits nearly in profile, hands folded in her lap and light gloves on, in this gold-toned quarter-plate daguerreotype made in the 1850s. The back of the plate bears a scratched "215" and a Rinhart hallmark, and one corner has been trimmed. Mathew Brady's studio produced it, and its records show it passed to the U.S. War College before being transferred in 1920. Her identity is not recorded, so the portrait stands as a close look at everyday dress and posture in the decade before the Civil War.

Created / published[between 1850 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : quarter plate daguerreotype, gold toned.
GenrePortrait photographs 1850-1860.Daguerreotypes 1850-1860.
NotesScratched on back of plate: 215. One corner trimmed. Hallmark: Rinhart 2. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,287 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference685_Unidentified_woman_abou_1850

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