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[Unidentified children, possibly Linus and Mary Alice Pett" Barbour]" – Vintage Wall Art

[Unidentified children, possibly Linus and Mary Alice Pett" Barbour]", [between 1850 and 1860] — historic photograph
[Unidentified children, possibly Linus and Mary Alice Pett" Barbour]", [between 1850 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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[Unidentified children, possibly Linus and Mary Alice Pett" Barbour]"

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The sitters in this small sixth-plate daguerreotype are unidentified, though the record suggests they may be Linus and Mary Alice Barbour, whose dates given in the record run from 1849 to 1875 and from 1844 to 1904. The plate sits in the Lucian Barbour Papers at the Library of Congress, and only its velvet pad survives, without the original case. Daguerreotypes of the 1850s were one-of-a-kind mirror-like images on silvered copper, so each one must be tilted in the light before the picture appears clearly.

Created / published[between 1850 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : sixth-plate daguerreotype.
GenreDaguerreotypes 1850-1860.Portrait photographs 1850-1860.Group portraits 1850-1860.
NotesNo case, only velvet pad remains. No electronic surrogate available. Transfer; Manuscript Division (Lucian Barbour Papers); 1999; (DLC/PP-1999:087). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Forms part of: Lucian Barbour Papers (Library of Congress)
SubjectsBarbour, Linus,--1849-1875. Jackson, Mary Alice Barbour,--1844-1904.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,931 × 6,066 px · prints to 16 × 20 in at 300 dpi
Reference22_Unidentified_children_p_1850

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