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[Unidentified woman in theatrical costume] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[Unidentified woman in theatrical costume], [between 1844 and 1860] — historic photograph
[Unidentified woman in theatrical costume], [between 1844 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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Scratched into the face of the plate with the name "Augusta," this half plate daguerreotype carries a catalog note proposing that the sitter is Madame Augusta. The image came from the studio of Mathew Brady, whose New York and Washington operation made portraits of stage performers and public figures in the years before the Civil War. Gold toning, applied to many plates of this period, deepened the silver image and helped protect its surface, while the costume suggests the sitter was dressed for the stage or a masquerade. The plate reached the Library of Congress through a 1920 transfer from the U.S. War College.

Created / published[between 1844 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype, gold toned.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860.
NotesAlternative identification: Madame Augusta (cat. 5). Scratched on face of plate: 86; Augusta. Scratched on back of plate: 455. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,268 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference494_Unidentified_woman_in_t_1844

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