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[Unidentified woman, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly to left, seated in chair] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[Unidentified woman, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly to left, seated in chair], [between 1850 and 1860] — historic photograph
[Unidentified woman, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly to left, seated in chair], [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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This rare historic photograph captures [Unidentified woman, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly to left, seated in chair] in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Set in a double case, this sixth-plate daguerreotype shows an unidentified woman seated in a chair, head and shoulders turned slightly to the left. A note inside the case, behind the image of a man, names a Mrs. M.M. Bradford of Rutland, Vermont, which hints at a family connection between the two portraits. Made between 1850 and 1860, when daguerreotypes were the leading portrait method, each plate is a single mirror-like image that shows its best only when tilted under light. The photographer is not recorded.

Created / published[between 1850 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : sixth plate daguerreotype.
GenrePortrait photographs 1850-1860.Daguerreotypes 1850-1860.
NotesPhotographer unidentified. Hallmark: Rinhart 29. Case: double case, Rinhart 185. Note on inside of case behind image of man: Mrs. M.M. Bradford, 79 Center St., Rutland, Vermont. Source unknown. Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,375 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi
Reference698_Unidentified_woman_head_1850

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