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Grandma Barrett as girl and Great Grandmother Lawrence

Collection Type

  • Photography

Date

1840s

Location Note

HGO-01-004-A-4 [Drawer 33 in old database]

GUSN

GUSN-254348

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Description

superior portrait of a girl (8) identified as "grandma Barrett" seated next to her mother "great grandmother Lawrence"; both sitters have tinted cheeks and gold tinted jewelry; the girl holds a tinted bouquet of flowers, her mother holds a tinted book

Details

Descriptive Terms

children (people by age group)
costume (mode of fashion)
women (female humans)
portraits
mothers
sitting
daguerreotypes (photographs)
photographs

Inscription

(encl) gt. grandmother lawrence and grandma barrett as a little girl

Additional Identification Number

DagID 704

Physical Description

1 daguerreotype

Collection Code

PC005

Collection Name

Daguerreotypes collection, c. 1845-1865

Reference Code

PC005.D06.462

Credit Line

Barrett House Collection

Record Details

Material Type

daguerreotypes (photographs)
photographs

Description Level

Item

Location Note

HGO-01-004-A-4 [Drawer 33 in old database]

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