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Elizabeth Earl Collins with son Thomas [pose 1] daguerreotype, 1853
Image: 1/4 plate; Seated woman wearing a dark three-quarter length sleeved dress with a whitework collar and undersleeves, hair parted in the center and puffed out over the ears, with a child on her lap dressed in a striped roundabout bias cut and buttoned on a diagonal. Preserver: Straight and embo...
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| Collection: | Earl, Collins, and Robeson families cased photos (#3613) |
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| Date: | 1853 |
| Dimensions: | 8.2 x 10.8 cm 3 7/32 x 4 1/4 in 9.49.4 x 11.8 cm 3 11/16 x 4 21/32 in |
| Box Number: | Box 1 |
| Folder Number: | Folder 8 |
| Format: | Electronic |
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| Copyright: | Public domain |
| Online Access: | https://digitallibrary.hsp.org/index.php/Detail/objects/7267 |
| Summary: |
Image: 1/4 plate; Seated woman wearing a dark three-quarter length sleeved dress with a whitework collar and undersleeves, hair parted in the center and puffed out over the ears, with a child on her lap dressed in a striped roundabout bias cut and buttoned on a diagonal. Preserver: Straight and embossed with simple pattern (after 1850). Mat: Oval with matte finish (ca.1850). Case: Leather covered wood frame embossed with a common "Vase with Fruits and Flowers" design [Plate 108 on page 110 of "American Miniature Case Art" by Floyd and Marion Rinhart (Cranbury, New Jersey: A. S. Barnes and Co., Inc., 1969)] on the front and back, with exterior and interior gilded edge trim, and a red velvet pinchpad, and a red velvet cushion embossed with a floral design (ca. 1856). |
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