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

[Unidentified woman, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front], [between 1851 and 1860] — historic photograph
[Unidentified woman, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front], [between 1851 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 front], preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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

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The case sets this portrait apart. Its inside lid is embossed with the name Anson and the address 589 Broadway, New York, and the brass mat carries the same stamp. Broadway was one of the city's busiest commercial streets in the 1850s, lined with studios competing for sitters. Ninth plate daguerreotypes like this one were small, mirror-bright images on silvered copper, protected under glass and set in decorative cases such as this floral, scrolled example. The unidentified woman, shown head and shoulders and facing the camera, is one of the many ordinary sitters who made the medium popular.

Created / published[between 1851 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : ninth plate daguerreotype.
GenrePortrait photographs 1850-1860.Daguerreotypes 1850-1860.
NotesCase: central floral motif surrounded by scrolls. Accompanying note: Who. Embossed on inside of case: Anson 589 Broadway N.Y. Stamped on brass mat: Anson. Gift; Family of William B. Osgood Field; 1997; (DLC/PP-1999:155). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,242 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference694_Unidentified_woman_head_1851

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