George Nicholas Foust and Amanda E. Foust

Permanent ID:
5818
Date:
circa 1857
Image Description:
Image: 1/6 plate; Boy dressed in a white shirt and pants, girl, with her hair parted in the center, dressed in a patterned shoulder-baring short sleeved dress, wearing a necklace of coral beads around her throat.
Preserver: Simple rope pattern.
Mat: Elliptical with sandy finish (late 1840s).
Case: Leather covered wood half frame, embossed with a floral design on the front, with a red cushion embossed with a floral design (1850s).
Enclosed item: Gelatin silver print reproduction of the daguerreotype, all edges torn (1950s).
Inscription:
(ink on paper): George Nicholas Foust / 1846 -1906 / Amanda E. Foust / 1848 - 1933 / (Mrs. Henry N. Travis) / #191 / Phila. (Note on back of enclosed gelatin silver print reproduction)

(ink): Presented by / Mrs. A. M. (Helen) Dryden / October 13, 1959 (Label applied to front exterior of case)

(pencil): [illegible] 32-223 / Mrs. A. M. D [illegible] / 19 Lafayette [illegible] / Swathmore [sic] Pa (Back of daguerreotype plate)
Format:
Daguerreotype
Dimensions:
Width: 7.2 cm, Height: 8.3 cm
Width: 2 27/32 in, Height: 3 9/32 in
Width: 7.9 cm, Height: 9.3 cm, Depth: 1.3 cm
Width: 3 1/8 in, Height: 3 19/32 in, Depth: 1/2 in
Collection:
Historical Society of Pennsylvania cased photographs collection
Related People or Organizations:
Foust, George Nicholas (depicted)
Foust, Amanda Eliza (depicted)
Dryden, A. M. (was donated by)
Library of Congress Subjects:
Daguerreotype
Portrait photography--United States
Photography of children