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[Unidentified woman, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right], [between 1854 and 1860] — historic photograph
[Unidentified woman, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right], [between 1854 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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A business card tucked behind the plate of this ninth-plate daguerreotype names J. White & Co., whose Providence studio on Westminster Street promised 25-cent portraits and "the best arranged light in the state," reached by a single flight of stairs. The studio's address in city directories dates the portrait to between 1854 and 1860. It shows an unidentified woman in a head-and-shoulders pose, hand-colored, and set in a case decorated with an oval of mixed flowers framed by scrolls. Inexpensive small portraits like this one were typical of the period, when daguerreotypists competed on price as much as on skill.

Created / published[between 1854 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : ninth-plate daguerreotype, hand-colored.
GenreDaguerreotypes 1850-1860.Portraits 1850-1860.
NotesBusiness card found behind daguerreotype plate: J. White & Co.s 25 cent daguerreotypes, 44 Westminster St., South side of Providence, R.I. All styles of cases constantly on hand, sold less than half charged at other places. This establishment has the best arranged light in the state, up one flight of stairs only. Case: mixed flowers in oval design surrounded by scrolls. Date based on photographer's address listed in city directories for Providence, RI. Barboza number: 6019.044. Purchase; Anthony Barboza; 1999; (DLC/PP-1999:022). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,035 × 5,000 px · prints to 13 × 17 in at 300 dpi
Reference697_Unidentified_woman_head_1854

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