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[Unidentified elderly woman with cap] – Antique Photo Print

[Unidentified elderly woman with cap], [between 1849 and 1860] — historic photograph
[Unidentified elderly woman with cap], [between 1849 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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Step back in time with [Unidentified elderly woman with cap], a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Few details survive about the woman in this small sixth-plate daguerreotype, catalogued only as an elderly sitter in a cap. The plate carries a hallmark recorded as Rinhart 42, while the photographer remains unidentified. Made sometime between 1849 and 1860, when daguerreotypes were among the most common portraits in America, it is a one-of-a-kind direct positive on silver-coated copper, so the image looks like a mirror and shifts in tone as the viewing angle changes.

Created / published[between 1849 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : sixth plate daguerreotype.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860.
NotesPhotographer unidentified. Hallmark: Rinhart 42. Source unknown. Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,264 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference338_Unidentified_elderly_wo_1849

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