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[Three unidentified women, two seated, one standing, facing front] – Vintage Photo Print

[Three unidentified women, two seated, one standing, facing front], [between 1840 and 1860] — historic photograph
[Three unidentified women, two seated, one standing, 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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Two women sit while a third stands behind them in this small sixth-plate daguerreotype, a format common for portraits made in the 1840s and 1850s. Nothing in the record identifies the sitters or the maker, but the image shows the conventions of the period: stiff, formal stillness, since early exposures ran long enough that any movement would blur the faces. The record notes only the plain leather case, seen from the back, and the piece came to the Library of Congress as a gift from Frances Benjamin Johnston, a photographer who gathered early photographic material.

Created / published[between 1840 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : sixth plate daguerreotype.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1860.Group portraits 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860.
NotesPhotographer unidentified. Case: back only, plain leather. Gift; Frances Benjamin Johnston. Forms part of: Frances Benjamin Johnston collection (Library of Congress). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,271 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference323_Three_unidentified_wome_1840

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