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[Two unidentified girls, about three and five years of age, the younger child seated in high chair, older one standing beside her on left, both nearly facing front] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[Two unidentified girls, about three and five years of age, the younger child seated in high chair, older one standing beside her on left, both nearly facing front], [between 1844 and 1860] — historic photograph
[Two unidentified girls, about three and five years of age, the younger child seated in high chair, older one standing beside her on left, both nearly facing front], [between 1844 and 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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Two girls, about three and five years old, pose for this half-plate daguerreotype, the younger seated in a high chair while her older sister stands at her left. Their identities went unrecorded, but the plate carries a paschal lamb hallmark and a number scratched on its back, and the picture is credited to Mathew Brady's studio. Gold toning, a finishing step many studios used in the 1840s and 1850s, deepened the silvery image, and the high chair likely helped steady the younger child through a long exposure.

Created / published[between 1844 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype, gold toned.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1860.Group portraits 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860.
NotesScratched on back of plate: 98. Hallmark: [paschal lamb] 40 [Upside down A] Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,305 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference327_Two_unidentified_girls_1844

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