HGO-01-004-A-4 [Drawer 33 in old database]
GUSN-254344
Lucinda A. Harding with long gold-tinted chain and bracelet, seated with one elbow elevated; very touching poem accompanies this image; image by John Plumbe Jr., a maverick daguerreotypist who operated an extensive chain during the 1840s
women (female humans)
costume (mode of fashion)
portraits
sitting
daguerreotypes (photographs)
photographs
(envelope) lucinda a. harding (mat) plumbe (encl) written by a.b. 1835 now deceased 1871 s.h. friends of mother's to lucinda/ i have observed your gentle ways/ i've seen what passes there/ in all my study was to please/ and you my only care/ [...]
DagID 449
1 daguerreotype
PC005
Daguerreotypes collection, c. 1845-1865
PC005.D06.456
Plumbe, John, Jr. (Photographer)
daguerreotypes (photographs)
photographs
Item
HGO-01-004-A-4 [Drawer 33 in old database]
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