Seated woman portrait in gilt daguerreotype case – Vintage Photo Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Seated woman portrait in gilt daguerreotype case, preserved in this historic image. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Seated woman portrait in gilt daguerreotype case
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A seated woman, held in a hinged gilt case, is what sets this daguerreotype apart from the other images on this board. Introduced in 1839, the daguerreotype became the most common portrait format of the 1840s and 1850s, prized for its sharp, mirror-like detail on a silver-coated copper plate. Cases like this one protected the fragile image under glass and turned it into a keepsake. The Lincoln Home in Springfield, Illinois, where the family lived from 1844 to 1861, belongs to the same decades when portraits like this were being made across the country.
| Original scan | 1,150 × 1,431 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | L-F-12 |
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