Elizabeth Cuthbert Roberts at the age of five years and four months daguerreotype, 1857

Image: 1/6 plate; Young girl seated on a wooden posing chair, with hair parted in the center and falling in shoulder-length ringlets around her face, wearing a patterned dress with diagonal checks on the bodice and horizontal checks and a growth tuck on the skirt, with short ruffled sleeves gathered...

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Main Author: Root, Marcus Aurelius (Creator)
Collection:Roberts family Photographs (#3652)
Date:1857
Dimensions:7.0 x 8.3 cm
2 3/4 x 3 9/32 in
8.1 x 9.3 cm
3 3/16 x 3 19/32 in
Format: Electronic
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Copyright:Public domain
Online Access:https://digitallibrary.hsp.org/index.php/Detail/objects/6891
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Summary: Image: 1/6 plate; Young girl seated on a wooden posing chair, with hair parted in the center and falling in shoulder-length ringlets around her face, wearing a patterned dress with diagonal checks on the bodice and horizontal checks and a growth tuck on the skirt, with short ruffled sleeves gathered at the shoulders, and the jagged edges of a petticoat showing under the skirt hem, white stockings to mid-calf. Preserver: Straight but more ornate (1850s). Mat: Double elliptical, with sandy finish (mid 1840-50). Case: Leather-covered wood frame embossed with a geometric design both front and back, with interior gilded edge trim, a red velvet pinchpad, and a red velvet cushion embossed with a geometric design (ca. 1850).