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[George Leverett Stowell as a boy, three-quarter length portrait, standing, full face, with hand on table with tablecloth] – Historic Photograph Print

[George Leverett Stowell as a boy, three-quarter length portrait, standing, full face, with hand on table with tablecloth], [ca. 1855] — historic photograph
[George Leverett Stowell as a boy, three-quarter length portrait, standing, full face, with hand on table with tablecloth], [ca. 1855]. 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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A hand-colored sixth-plate daguerreotype shows George Leverett Stowell as a boy of about six, standing three-quarters length with one hand resting on a draped table. The case cushion is embossed with the name Bogardus and the address 229 Greenwich, New York, tying the portrait to the studio of Abraham Bogardus, a well-known New York daguerreotypist of the 1850s. Hand-coloring, which added tints to cheeks, clothing and background, was a popular finishing touch in this period. The picture is held in the Ellery C. Stowell Papers at the Library of Congress, which links it to the family.

Created / published[ca. 1855]
Medium1 photograph : sixth plate daguerreotype, hand-colored.
GenrePortrait photographs 1850-1860.Daguerreotypes 1850-1860.
NotesEmbossed on cushion of case: Bogardus, 229 Greenwich, NY. Case: elaborate scroll design. Accompanying note: George Leverett Stowell. Transfer; Manuscript Division; 1955. Forms part of: Ellery C. Stowell Papers, 1802-1952 (Library of Congress). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsStowell, George Leverett,--b. 1849.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,262 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference591_George_Leverett_Stowell_1855

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