Unidentified Photographer

DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Portrait of an unidentified African-American woman

ca. 1850
daguerreotype with applied color
7.0 x 5.5 cm.: 1/6 plate
Museum Purchase: ex-collection Zelda P. Mackay
GEH NEGS: 24594 5719
69:0201:0020

NON-GEH NUMBER: Mackay # 283

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Severa, Joan L. --Dressed for the Photographer: Ordinary Americans and Fashion, 1840-1900.-- Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1995. page 124.//
Hirsch, Robert. --Seizing the Light: A History of Photography.-- New York: McGraw Hill, 1999. pg. 30.//
Mulligan, Therese & Wooters, David. --Photography from 1839 to today: George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.-- Cologne: Taschen, 1999. p. 68.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY: "Now and Then: Making The Daguerreotype", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Discovery Gallery, October 9, 1993 - April 3, 1994.//

NOTES: Catalogued 8/93, DZ.

SUBJECT: portrait, female