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[Clark sisters, five women, three-quarter length portraits, all facing front] – Antique Photo Print

[Clark sisters, five women, three-quarter length portraits, all facing front], [between 1840 and 1860] — historic photograph
[Clark sisters, five women, three-quarter length portraits, all facing front], [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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Five members of the Clark family, all sisters by the record's title, sit for this half plate daguerreotype in three-quarter length, each facing the camera. A handwritten note in the case, on stationery of the Arts Club of Washington and in the hand of photographer Frances Benjamin Johnston, names the women as Harriet Allen, Ladonia Hoy, Joanette Benjamin, Juliaette Millard and Laura Palmer, and Johnston later gave the piece to the Library of Congress. The photographer is unidentified, but the portrait dates from the 1840 to 1860 period, when daguerreotypes were the most common form of photographic portrait and relatives often sat together to mark a family gathering.

Created / published[between 1840 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1860.Group portraits 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860.
NotesPhotographer unidentified. Hallmark: 40. Case: Rinhart 63. Accompanying note in case on stationery of the Arts Club of Washington, in handwriting of Frances Benjamin Johnston identifies sitters (l-r): Aunt Harriet Allen, Aunt Ladonna Hoy, Grandma Joanette C-B, Aunt Julia Millard, Aunt Laura. Gift; Frances Benjamin Johnston. Forms part of: Francis Benjamin Johnston collection (Library of Congress). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsAllen, Harriet Elizabeth Clark,--1818-1863. Hoy, Ladonia Charlotte Clark,--b. 1827. Benjamin, Joanette Clark,--1814 or 1815-1880. Millard, Juliaette Alcesta Clark,--b. 1820. Palmer, Laura Miles Clark,--b. 1822.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,284 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
Reference6_Clark_sisters_five_wome_1840

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