[Unidentified girl, three-quarter length portrait, facing front, seated with elbow on large book on table] – Historic Photograph Print
![[Unidentified girl, three-quarter length portrait, facing front, seated with elbow on large book on table], [between 1840 and 1860] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/b6/b626ab2fd922-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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[Unidentified girl, three-quarter length portrait, facing front, seated with elbow on large book on table]
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Seated with her elbow resting on a large book, this unidentified girl is posed three-quarters length and faces the camera squarely. The book was a common prop in mid-nineteenth-century studio portraits, where it suggested learning, refinement, or a family's regard for education. Her portrait is a half-plate daguerreotype, made on a polished silver-coated copper plate, and the photographer is unknown. The image dates from between 1840 and 1860, when the daguerreotype was the dominant form of portrait photography in the United States.
| Created / published | [between 1840 and 1860] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860. |
| Notes | Photographer unidentified. In passe partout mat. Gift; Charles W. Millard; 1976; (DLC/PP-1976:096). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,325 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 341_Unidentified_girl_three_1840 |
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