Root, M.A.
American (1808-1888)

DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Portrait of small girl standing on table

ca. 1850
daguerreotype with applied color
4.2 x 3.2 cm. (oval), 1/9 plate
Gift of Mrs. J. Leslie Crowell
GEH NEG: 42936
79:3144:0001

OLD GEH NUMBER: 3684:5

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCE: Mulligan, Therese & Wooters, David. --Photography from 1839 to today: George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.-- Cologne: Taschen, 1999. p. 61.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
"Now and Then: Making The Daguerreotype", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Discovery Gallery, October 9, 1993 - April 3, 1994.//
"Secrets of the Dark Chamber: The Art of the American Daguerreotype", US, DC, Washington, National Museum of American Art, June 30 - October 29, 1995.//

NOTES: Catalogued 8/93, DZ.

SUBJECT: portrait, girl