Seated woman posing with a sewing machine, daguerreotype – Vintage Wall Art
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This rare historic photograph captures Seated woman posing with a sewing machine, daguerreotype in remarkable detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Seated woman posing with a sewing machine, daguerreotype
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A seated woman poses beside a sewing machine in this daguerreotype from around 1853, a small detail that places the sitter among the first generations to see the machine enter ordinary households. Elias Howe had patented a practical lockstitch sewing machine in 1846, and by the early 1850s American manufacturers such as Singer were producing machines in quantity, turning needlework that once took hours by hand into a faster task. Daguerreotypes like this one were made on silvered copper plates, each a unique image that is reversed left to right and best viewed at an angle against a dark ground. The pairing of sitter and machine makes it a useful window onto domestic life at the start of the industrial era.
| Created / published | 1853 |
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| Original scan | 3,280 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 617_Occupational_portrait_o_1853 |
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