[Unidentified girl, three-quarter length portrait, facing front, seated in chair, holding doll] – Historic Photo Reproduction
![[Unidentified girl, three-quarter length portrait, facing front, seated in chair, holding doll], [between 1842 and 1860] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/f3/f39caba8885e-L.webp)
(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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[Unidentified girl, three-quarter length portrait, facing front, seated in chair, holding doll]
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A young girl sits for the camera in this sixth plate daguerreotype, holding a doll in her lap, a pairing that gives the toy nearly as much presence as the child. Made between 1842 and 1860, when daguerreotypes were the leading form of portrait photography, the small plate size was a common and affordable choice for family sitters. Exposures ran long enough that subjects had to hold still, so a child with a favorite toy could be steadied by the familiar object in her arms. The photographer is unknown, but the plate's hallmark and case style help place the image in the years when this format was most popular.
| Created / published | [between 1842 and 1860] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photograph : sixth plate daguerreotype. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860. |
| Notes | Photographer unidentified. Hallmark: Rinhart 13a. Case: variant of Rinhart 44. Source unknown. Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). |
| Subjects | Dolls--1840-1860. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,248 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 340_Unidentified_girl_three_1842 |
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