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[Unidentified woman, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left] – Vintage Wall Art

[Unidentified woman, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left], [between 1858 and 1860] — historic photograph
[Unidentified woman, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left], [between 1858 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 window into the past: [Unidentified woman, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left], preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[Unidentified woman, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left]

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The brass mat on this portrait is stamped Ball & Thomas, 120 West 4th Street, Cincinnati, Ohio, which places the sitting in that city in the late 1850s. Its sixth-plate format was a small, inexpensive size that suited the pocket cases many families carried in those years. The sitter, a woman shown head and shoulders and turned to her left, remains unidentified. Her case is decorated with mixed flowers framed by scrolls, a typical ornament of the period's protective cases.

Created / published[between 1858 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : sixth-plate daguerreotype.
GenreDaguerreotypes 1850-1860.Portrait photographs 1850-1860.
NotesCase: Mixed flowers surrounded by scrolls. Barboza number: 6019.034. Stamped on brass mat: Ball & Thomas, 120 W 4th St. Cin. O. Purchase; Anthony Barboza; 1999; (DLC/PP-1999:022). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,738 × 4,653 px · prints to 12 × 16 in at 300 dpi
Reference695_Unidentified_woman_head_1858

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