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[Mrs. Stevens Everett, bust-length portrait, facing right] – Antique Photo Print

[Mrs. Stevens Everett, bust-length portrait, facing right], [ca. 1850] — historic photograph
[Mrs. Stevens Everett, bust-length portrait, facing right], [ca. 1850]. 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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[Mrs. Stevens Everett, bust-length portrait, facing right]

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A small sixteenth-plate daguerreotype shows Emily Abbot Everett, identified by the label inside its case as Mrs. Stevens Everett, posed bust-length and turned toward the right. Daguerreotypes, introduced in 1839, were one-of-a-kind positives made on silvered copper, and their mirror-like surfaces could be seen clearly only at certain angles. The sixteenth-plate size was among the smallest common formats, sealed in a plain leather case like this one with its push button, and it was meant to be held and kept close. The portrait came to the Library of Congress in 2004 as part of the Henry L. Abbot family papers, so it survives as a family possession as well as a photographic object.

Created / published[ca. 1850]
Medium1 photograph : sixteeth-plate daguerreotype.
GenreDaguerreotypes 1850.Portrait photographs 1850.
NotesCase: plain leather, push button. Label in case: Mrs. Stevens Everett (Dear). No electronic surrogate available. Transfer; Manuscript Division (Henry L. Abbot family papers); 2004; (DLC/PP-2004:044). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Forms part of: Henry L. Abbot family papers (Library of Congress).
SubjectsEverett, Emily Abbot,--b. 1799.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,874 × 6,123 px · prints to 16 × 20 in at 300 dpi
Reference611_Mrs_Stevens_Everett_bus_1850

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