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Daguerreotype of a seated girl with long curls wearing a silk dress and a large bead necklace with a cross pendant. Set in a gilt metal matting with a scroll border with glass cover, all set in a leather covered case with a red silk lining, front and back of case features sprays of flowers in relief within a scrolled frames.
daguerreotypes (photographs)
glass (material)
Photograph
Positive, Direct
Daguerreotype
Daguerreotype
"THOMPSON / 315 B.WAY-NY" (Stamped)
3012
Thompson, Josiah W. (Manufacturer)
J. W. Thompson & Co. (Manufacturer)
New York, New York
2 7/8 x 2 3/8 x 1/2 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Elizabeth Neilson Gallatin Baybutt
2007.13.2
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