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[Mabel Hubbard Gardiner Bell as a girl, half-length portrait, facing front] – Vintage Photo Print

[Mabel Hubbard Gardiner Bell as a girl, half-length portrait, facing front], [ca. 1860] — historic photograph
[Mabel Hubbard Gardiner Bell as a girl, half-length portrait, facing front], [ca. 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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[Mabel Hubbard Gardiner Bell as a girl, half-length portrait, facing front]

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Mabel Hubbard Gardiner, who later became Mabel Bell and married Alexander Graham Bell, appears here as a young girl in a half-length portrait taken around 1860. The image is a sixth-plate daguerreotype, a small, mirror-bright positive on silvered copper, and it survives in a plain leather case with a push-button closure. Daguerreotypes like this one were the dominant portrait medium of the 1840s and 1850s, and by about 1860 they were giving way to paper prints, which makes this early and intimate likeness a useful record of the period. The photographer is unidentified, but the piece is part of the Bell family photograph holdings at the Library of Congress.

Created / published[ca. 1860]
Medium1 photograph : sixth plate daguerreotype.
GenrePortrait photographs 1850-1870.Daguerreotypes 1850-1870.
NotesPhotographer unidentified. Hallmark: Rinhart 20a. Case: plain leather, push button. Transfer; Manuscript Division; 1975; (DLC/PP-1975:199). Forms part of: Gilbert H. Grosvenor collection of Photographs of the Alexander Graham Bell Family (Library of Congress). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsBell, Mabel Gardiner Hubbard,--1857-1923.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,294 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference35_Mabel_Hubbard_Gardiner_1860

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