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America's First Look into the Camera: Daguerreotype Portraits and Views, 1839-1864

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[Occupational portrait of a woman working at a sewing machine].

OTHER TITLES
Seamstress.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
[ca. 1853]

NOTES
Photographer unidentified.

Published under the title: "Seamstress."

Case: variant of Rinhart 124.

The daguerreotype is housed in an unmatched case provided by the vendor.

Original served by appointment only.

Purchase; 1991; (DLC/PP-1991:219).

Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).

Published under title "Seamstress" in: Eyes of the Nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and the curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York : Knopf, 1997.

Exhibit loan 4105-L.

SUBJECTS
Seamstresses--1850-1860.
Sewing machines--1850-1860.
Portrait photographs--1850-1860.
Daguerreotypes--1850-1860.

MEDIUM
1 photograph : sixth plate daguerreotype, hand-colored.

CALL NUMBER
DAG no. 1204

REPRODUCTION NUMBER
LC-USZC4-3598 DLC (color film copy transparency post-1992)
LC-USZ6-2058 DLC (b&w film copy neg. post-1992)
LC-USZ62-106400 DLC (b&w film copy neg. pre-1992)

SPECIAL TERMS OF USE
No known restrictions on publication.

PART OF
Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress)

REPOSITORY
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

DIGITAL ID
(color film copy transparency post-1992) cph 3g03598 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g03598
(b&w film copy neg. post-1992) cph 3d02058 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3d02058
(b&w film copy neg. pre-1992) cph 3c06400 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c06400

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