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[Mabel Hubbard as a girl, full-length portrait, seated on chair] – Vintage Wall Art

[Mabel Hubbard as a girl, full-length portrait, seated on chair], [ca. 1860] — historic photograph
[Mabel Hubbard as a girl, full-length portrait, seated on chair], [ca. 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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Mabel Hubbard, later Mabel Hubbard Bell, appears here as a young girl, seated in full length in this sixth-plate daguerreotype. Made around 1860, when the daguerreotype was giving way to cheaper paper-based processes, the image is sealed under glass in its original case, whose central floral motif surrounded by scrolls is worth a closer look. Mabel was the daughter of Boston lawyer Gardiner Greene Hubbard, and she married Alexander Graham Bell in 1877. The photographer is unidentified, but the piece is preserved as part of the Bell family photographs at the Library of Congress.

Created / published[ca. 1860]
Medium1 photograph : sixth plate daguerreotype.
GenrePortrait photographs 1850-1870.Daguerreotypes 1850-1870.
NotesPhotographer unidentified. Case: central floral motif surrounded by scrolls. Accompanying note: Mabel G. Hubbard. Transfer; Manuscript Division; 1975; (DLC/PP-1975:199). Forms part of: Gilbert H. Grosvenor collection of Photographs of the Alexander Graham Bell Family (Library of Congress). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsBell, Mabel Gardiner Hubbard,--1857-1923.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,271 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference33_Mabel_Hubbard_as_a_girl_1860

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