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[Jerusha Field, half-length portrait, seated in chair, with arm resting on table with tablecloth] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[Jerusha Field, half-length portrait, seated in chair, with arm resting on table with tablecloth], [between 1840 and 1860] — historic photograph
[Jerusha Field, half-length portrait, seated in chair, with arm resting on table with tablecloth], [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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Jerusha Field, a Quaker from New York and Peekskill according to the note that accompanies this daguerreotype, is shown half-length, seated in a chair with one arm resting on a draped table. The sixth-plate format was small and precious, usually sealed under glass in a case, and this one was made in the years between 1840 and 1860, when portrait daguerreotypes were the most popular form of photography. The photographer is unidentified, so the sitter's own family history, preserved through a gift from the Field family in 1997, is the main record of who she was. Quaker sitters of this era often favored plain dress and restrained settings, which makes the simple tablecloth and unadorned pose worth noticing.

Created / published[between 1840 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : sixth plate daguerreotype.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860.
NotesPhotographer unidentified. Case: Rinhart 141. Accompanying note: Jerusha Field, Quaker of N.Y. & Peekskill. Gift; Family of William B. Osgood Field; 1997; (DLC/PP-1999:155). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,231 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference227_Jerusha_Field_halflengt_1840

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