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[Sarah Allister McAllister Grant, three-quarters length, seated in chair, with arm resting on table with tablecloth] – Vintage Photo Print

[Sarah Allister McAllister Grant, three-quarters length, seated in chair, with arm resting on table with tablecloth], [1853?] — historic photograph
[Sarah Allister McAllister Grant, three-quarters length, seated in chair, with arm resting on table with tablecloth], [1853?]. 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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[Sarah Allister McAllister Grant, three-quarters length, seated in chair, with arm resting on table with tablecloth] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Sarah Allister McAllister Grant, three-quarters length, seated in chair, with arm resting on table with tablecloth]

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Seated with one arm resting on a draped table, Sarah Allister McAllister Grant appears in this stereoscopic daguerreotype, a pair of nearly identical images meant to be viewed together for a three-dimensional effect. The plate is hand-colored, with pigment applied over the silver surface, a common finish in the 1850s when sitters wanted their portraits to look more lifelike. Dated tentatively to about 1853, the portrait is identified by a name written on its back, and it was acquired in 1997 as part of the Marian S. Carson collection.

Created / published[1853?]
Medium1 photograph : stereoscopic daguerreotype, hand-colored.
GenreDaguerreotypes 1850-1860.Stereographs 1850-1860.Portrait photographs 1850-1860.
NotesWritten on back: Sarah M. Grant, 1853? Purchase; Marian S. Carson; 1997; (DLC/PP-1997:105). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection (Library of Congress)
SubjectsGrant, Sarah Allister McAllister,--1819-1870.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan6,140 × 4,897 px · prints to 20 × 16 in at 300 dpi
Reference626_Sarah_Allister_McAllist_1853

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