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Unidentified woman in bonnet, half-length daguerreotype portrait – Historic Photo Reproduction

Unidentified woman in bonnet, half-length daguerreotype portrait, 1851 — historic photograph
Unidentified woman in bonnet, half-length daguerreotype portrait, 1851. Historic photograph from the Daguerreotypes & Early Photography collection.

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A half-length daguerreotype of an unidentified woman in a bonnet, dated 1851, sits among the gallery's early photographic plates. Daguerreotypes were made on silvered copper sheets and were unique objects, so each one is a single exposure with no negative to reproduce it from. By the early 1850s this process had been public for roughly a decade and was widely used for portraits, drawing customers from every class. The bonnet, a common fashion of the period, helps place the sitter in the years before the carte de visite made photographic portraits cheap and common.

Created / published1851
Original scan3,288 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference691_Unidentified_woman_half_1851

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