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[Gertrude Mercer Hubbard Grossman, Roberta Wolcott Hubbard Bell, and Mabel Hubbard Bell as girls] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[Gertrude Mercer Hubbard Grossman, Roberta Wolcott Hubbard Bell, and Mabel Hubbard Bell as girls], [ca. 1860] — historic photograph
[Gertrude Mercer Hubbard Grossman, Roberta Wolcott Hubbard Bell, and Mabel Hubbard Bell as girls], [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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Three girls pose together in this half-plate daguerreotype, made around 1860 and attributed to the Boston studio of Southworth & Hawes. The sitters include Mabel Hubbard, who later married Alexander Graham Bell, along with her sister Gertrude Mercer Hubbard and Roberta Wolcott Hubbard Bell, whose name is sometimes recorded as Grace. By this time the daguerreotype was giving way to paper prints, and this plate has been cut down to fit its plain leather case with a push-button closure. The image forms part of the Gilbert H. Grosvenor collection of Bell family photographs at the Library of Congress.

Created / published[ca. 1860]
Medium1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype.
GenrePortrait photographs 1850-1860.Group portraits 1850-1860.Daguerreotypes 1850-1860.
NotesAttributed to Southworth & Hawes. Plate cut down. Roberta Wolcott Hubbard Bell alternately identified as Grace Hubbard Bell. Case: plain leather, push button. 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).
SubjectsGrossman, Gertrude Mercer Hubbard,--1849-1886. Bell, Mabel Gardiner Hubbard,--1857-1923. Bell, Roberta Wolcott Hubbard,--1859-1885.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,278 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference32_Gertrude_Mercer_Hubbard_1860

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