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[Mabel Hubbard, half-length portrait of a girl, facing front, seated] – Vintage Photo Print

[Mabel Hubbard, half-length portrait of a girl, facing front, seated], [ca. 1860] — historic photograph
[Mabel Hubbard, half-length portrait of a girl, facing front, seated], [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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A young Mabel Hubbard, who would later marry Alexander Graham Bell, sits for this half-length portrait made around 1860, when she was about three. The sixth-plate daguerreotype has been cut down from its original size, and only the plain leather back of its case survives, so the maker remains unidentified. Mabel later lost her hearing to scarlet fever in early childhood and worked closely with her husband on deaf education, and the picture is preserved within the Library of Congress's Bell family photographs.

Created / published[ca. 1860]
Medium1 photograph : sixth plate daguerreotype, cut down.
GenrePortrait photographs 1850-1870.Daguerreotypes 1850-1870.
NotesPhotographer unidentified. Case: back only, plain leather. Accompanying note: Mabel G. Hubbard. 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 scan3,265 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference36_Mabel_Hubbard_halflengt_1860

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