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[Lucy Stone, half-length portrait of a woman, seated, facing front] – Vintage Photo Print

[Lucy Stone, half-length portrait of a woman, seated, facing front], [between 1840 and 1860] — historic photograph
[Lucy Stone, half-length portrait of a woman, seated, facing front], [between 1840 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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Lucy Stone (1818–1893), the Massachusetts abolitionist and women's rights organizer, sits for this half-length portrait, which faces the camera directly with a bouquet of flowers tucked into the case. The ninth-plate daguerreotype dates from between 1840 and 1860, and its photographer is unidentified. Stone married Henry Browne Blackwell in 1855 and kept her own surname, a choice that became a well-known symbol in the women's movement. The plate came to the Library of Congress as part of the Blackwell family papers, which suggests the family kept it among its own belongings.

Created / published[between 1840 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : ninth plate daguerreotype.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860.
NotesPhotographer unidentified. Case: bouquet of flowers. Forms part of: Visual materials from the Blackwell family papers. Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Transfer; Manuscript Division; 1985; (DLC/PP-1985:108).
SubjectsStone, Lucy,--1818-1893.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,264 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference260_Lucy_Stone_halflength_p_1840

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