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ca. 1850
GUSN-26628
Girl with dark hair in ringlets with checkered short sleeve dress. Facing right with hands holding an open book on top of a lace cloth covered table. Sixth-plate dageurreotype with gilded matting and wooden frame covered in tooled brown cardboard. Interior of frame with gilded metal border and brown velvet border. Two metal loops on right side of frame indicating that this was attached to other pieces.
daguerreotypes (photographs)
daguerreotypes (photographs)
glass (material)
Picture
Portrait
Glass
Daguerreotype
Portrait
Typed on paper at bottom of frame: ""Ellen E. Brown, Boston""
Ellen E. Brown
Unknown
3.75 x 3.25 (HxW) (inches)
Bequest of Eleanor Fayerweather
1993.733
Massachusetts (United States)
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