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[Unidentified woman and girl] – Vintage Photo Print

[Unidentified woman and girl], [between 1840 and 1860] — historic photograph
[Unidentified woman and girl], [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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[Unidentified woman and girl] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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A woman and a girl sit together in this small sixth-plate daguerreotype, and their identities are not recorded, so the picture rests on its details: the close pose and the hand-applied color. Between 1840 and 1860, colorists often brushed pigment onto the cheeks, lips and clothing of daguerreotypes, which otherwise appeared as silver-toned images on polished copper plates. The case numbers, cited to the Rinhart reference catalog, help date and identify the protective case that holds the plate. The Library of Congress acquired the piece in 1999 and keeps it in its daguerreotype collection.

Created / published[between 1840 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : sixth-plate daguerreotype, hand-colored.
GenreDaguerreotypes 1840-1860.Group portraits 1840-1860.
NotesCase: front - Rinhart 120; back - Rinhart 195. Barboza number: 6019.070. Purchase; Anthony Barboza; 1999; (DLC/PP-1999:022). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,748 × 4,662 px · prints to 12 × 16 in at 300 dpi
Reference491_Unidentified_woman_and_1840

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