[Mary Susan Everett Abbot, facing right] – Vintage Wall Art
![[Mary Susan Everett Abbot, facing right], [ca. 1854] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/78/78ce0d169a86-L.webp)
(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 [Mary Susan Everett Abbot, facing right], 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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[Mary Susan Everett Abbot, facing right]
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Few sixth-plate daguerreotypes of the 1850s survive with their hand coloring this intact, and this small portrait of Mary Susan Everett Abbot, shown in profile facing right, is one of them. Her image was made around 1854, when daguerreotypes were the most common form of portrait photography. Its silver-coated copper plate was fitted with a brass mat stamped "Hale," and the tinted cheeks and clothing were added by hand to a process that otherwise produced only a monochrome image. The picture comes from the Henry L. Abbot family papers at the Library of Congress, which preserve the family's personal documents, and it offers a glimpse of how middle-class sitters presented themselves before the Civil War. Mary Susan Everett Abbot lived from 1832 to 1871.
| Created / published | [ca. 1854] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photograph : sixth-plate daguerreotype, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Daguerreotypes 1850-1860.Portrait photographs 1850-1860. |
| Notes | Stamped on brass mat: Hale. Case: Rinhart 141. No electronic surrogate available. Transfer; Manuscript Division (Henry L. Abbot family papers); 2004; (DLC/PP-2004:044). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Forms part of: Henry L. Abbot family papers (Library of Congress). |
| Subjects | Abbot, Mary Susan Everett,--1832-1871. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,919 × 6,111 px · prints to 16 × 20 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 2_Mary_Susan_Everett_Abbo_1854 |
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