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Portrait of a woman with flowers in her hair – Historic Photo Reproduction

Portrait of a woman with flowers in her hair, 1844 — historic photograph
Portrait of a woman with flowers in her hair, 1844. Historic photograph from the Daguerreotypes & Early Photography collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Portrait of a woman with flowers in her hair comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.

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Portrait of a woman with flowers in her hair

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Flowers tucked into the sitter's hair give this 1844 portrait a lighter, more personal touch than the stiff formal poses common in early studio work. As a daguerreotype, it is a single image on a polished silvered copper plate that reflects like a mirror when viewed at the right angle. Exposures in the 1840s could take several seconds or more in good light, so the sitter had to hold still, and the fine detail in the petals and hair is one of the process's signature strengths. Because each daguerreotype is a unique object, surviving examples like this one offer a direct glimpse of how people chose to present themselves in the years after the process was announced in 1839.

Created / published1844
Original scan1,206 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
Reference503_Unidentified_woman_abou_1844

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