Object Details
- Subject of
- Unidentified
- Unidentified Woman or Women
- Unidentified Child or Children
- Description
- Daguerreotype of a woman wearing a floral checked patterned blouse. The woman looks straight ahead at the camera and holds a baby on her lap. The baby wears a dress with a light colored dot pattern. The portrait is in front of a plain grey background. The daguerreotype is an a black painted wood frame with decorative painted gold edging in the center around the photograph. The back of the frame features a carved scroll and floral motif. The paint has worn off at the raised edges of the design.
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- 1839-1865
- Object number
- 2011.155.146
- Restrictions & Rights
- Public Domain
- Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
- Type
- daguerreotypes
- portraits
- Medium
- silver on copper photographic plates with wood
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 3 11/16 × 3 1/4 × 1/2 in. (9.4 × 8.3 × 1.3 cm)
- Place collected
- United States, North and Central America
- See more items in
- National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
- Classification
- Photographs and Still Images
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Topic
- African American
- Children
- Motherhood
- Photography
- Women
- Record ID
- nmaahc_2011.155.146
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/fd5c0cd881f-ab12-4c6d-a186-712a76e4e9e3
