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[Mabel Hubbard as a young girl, half-length portrait] – Vintage Wall Art

[Mabel Hubbard as a young girl, half-length portrait], [ca. 1860] — historic photograph
[Mabel Hubbard as a young girl, half-length portrait], [ca. 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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Mabel Gardiner Hubbard, who would later become the wife of Alexander Graham Bell, appears here as a young girl in a half-length daguerreotype made around 1860. The sixth-plate image is a small, mirror-bright positive sealed in a plain leather case with a push-button closure, the sort of keepsake families commonly carried or displayed in the 1850s and 1860s. Its photographer is unknown, but the Rinhart hallmark on the case helps date the object. The plate came to the Library of Congress through the Gilbert H. Grosvenor collection of Bell family photographs, a reminder of how closely these early portraits were kept within family circles.

Created / published[ca. 1860]
Medium1 photograph : sixth plate daguerreotype.
GenrePortrait photographs 1850-1870.Daguerreotypes 1850-1860.
NotesPhotographer unidentified. Hallmark: Rinhart 20a. Case: plain leather, push button. Accompanying note: Mabel G. Hubbard afterwards wife of Alexander Graham Bell. Transfer; Manuscript Division; 1975; (DLC/PP-1975:199). Forms part of: Gilbert H. Grosvenor collection of Photographs of the Alexander Graham Bell Family (Library of Congress). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsBell, Mabel Gardiner Hubbard,--1857-1923.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,291 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference34_Mabel_Hubbard_as_a_youn_1860

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