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Head-and-shoulders portrait of Frances Greely, location unknown, ca. 1850

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Collection Type

  • Photography

Date

ca. 1850

Location Note

HGO-01-004-A-2 [Drawer 44 in old database]

GUSN

GUSN-254004

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Description

The painting depicts Frances Greely [Loring Curtis]. Loring and Curtis was a firm of merchants in Boston, Massachusetts.

Details

Descriptive Terms

portraits
women (female humans)
daguerreotypes (photographs)
photographs

Inscription

(case) frances greely, married loring for her first husband, by whom she had ed. g. loring (judge loring). her second husband was mr. thomas curtis, widower. her only child by him was helen pelham curtis (mrs. john h. dix) taken from her portrait [...]

Additional Identification Number

DagID 326

Physical Description

1 daguerreotype

Collection Code

PC005

Collection Name

Daguerreotypes collection, c. 1845-1865

Reference Code

PC005.D06.116

Image Dimensions

3 1/4 x 2 3/4 (HxW)(inches)

Dimensions

3 7/8 x 3 3/8 x 5/8 (HxWxD)(inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Frances Greely Stevenson

Record Details

Material Type

daguerreotypes (photographs)
photographs

Other People

Greely, Frances

Description Level

Item

Location Note

HGO-01-004-A-2 [Drawer 44 in old database]

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