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[Augusta Currie Bradhurst Field, head-and-shoulders portrait of a woman, facing front] – Vintage Wall Art

[Augusta Currie Bradhurst Field, head-and-shoulders portrait of a woman, facing front], 1854 — historic photograph
[Augusta Currie Bradhurst Field, head-and-shoulders portrait of a woman, facing front], 1854. 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 handwritten note identifies the subject of this small sixteenth-plate daguerreotype as Augusta Currie Bradhurst Field, called Gussie, who was eight in 1854, though the question mark after the name suggests the identification was not entirely certain. The brass mat is stamped with the name of Quinby, a New York studio at 385 Broadway, and the scroll-patterned case with its central oval reflects the mass-produced housings that made these tiny portraits affordable to middle-class families. Pictures like this were meant to be held close and opened in the hand rather than hung on a wall.

Created / published1854
Medium1 photograph : sixteenth plate daguerreotype.
GenrePortrait photographs 1850-1860.Daguerreotypes 1850-1860.
NotesCase: scroll design with central oval motif. Accompanying note: 9 118 East 25th St. 1854 - 8 yrs. old Gussie Bradhurst ? Field. Augusta C. Bradhurst #9. Stamped on brass mat: Quinby 385 Broadway. Gift; Family of William B. Osgood Field; 1997; (DLC/PP-1999:155). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Exhibited: American Treasures of the Library of Congress. Washington, D.C., 2003-2004.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,278 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference570_Augusta_Currie_Bradhurs_1854

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