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Unidentified Photographer

DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Woman seated, holding daguerreotype

ca. 1850
daguerreotype
8.0 x 6.8 cm., 1/6 plate
Gift of Ueda L. Burker
GEH NEG: 5639
79:3300:0001

OLD GEH NUMBER: 4939

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Sallenave, Daniele & Delpire, Robert (ed.). --New York Review of Books Dialogue with the Invisible.-- www.geh.org/link/Sn/sallenave.html, 1978.//
Schoenfeld, Diana. --Symbol and Surrogate: The Picture Within.-- Honolulu: University of Hawaii Art Gallery, 1989. page 26.//
This image was part of GEH's 1999 submission to AMICO (Art Museum Image Consortium).//
Mulligan, Therese & Wooters, David. --Photography from 1839 to today: George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.-- Cologne: Taschen, 1999. p. 70.//
This image was part of GEH's 2000 submission to AMICO (Art Museum Image Consortium).//

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
"International Exhibition of Photography - The Camera as Witness", Canada, QUE, Montreal April 28 - October 27, 1967.//
"On Time in Photographs", US, NY, Rochester January 10 - February 6, 1988.//
"Silver & Gold: Cased Images of the California Gold Rush", US, CA, Oakland January 24 - August 15, 1998.//
"Inside Out: 50 Years of Collecting", US, NY, Rochester April 24, 1999 - March 12, 2000.//
"Reflections in a Glass Eye: Works from the International Center of Photography", US, NY, New York November 3, 2000 - March 18, 2001.//

INSCRIPTION: verso-(conservation notations on tape used in rebinding of image)

NOTES: Catalogued 11/87, DZ.

SUBJECTS:
portrait, female
picture within picture

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