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My dead brother in his metallic coffin
My dead brother in his metallic coffin
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My dead brother in his metallic coffin

Permanent ID:
5641
Date:
circa 1850
Image Description:
Image: 1/6 plate; Postmortem of a child lying with eyes shut surrounded by different fabric. Preserver: Stiff & heavy, more golden (1847-50). Mat: Oval with matte finish (ca.1850). Case: Leather-covered wood-frame embossed with a common "Lily and Rose" design [Plate 114 page 113 of "American Miniature Case Art" by Floyd and Marion Rinhart (Cranbury, New Jersey: A. S. Barnes and Co., Inc., 1969)] design on both sides, with gilded pattern on the interior, with a red velvet pinchpad, and a ruby velvet cushion embossed with a very rare floral and geometric design with two cherub figures (ca.1850).
Inscription:
(ink on paper tag): my Dead Brother / in his metalic [sic] / coffin Buried in / odd Fellows / cemetary. / Had a fall Hurt / his knee [recto]; (pencil on paper tag): Buried / 77 years / 36 / His Jacob / Noah / [illegible] (Paper tag enclosed in item)
Format:
Daguerreotype
Dimensions:
Width: 7 cm, Height: 8.4 cm (image)
Width: 2 3/4 in, Height: 3 1/4 in (image)
Width: 8 cm, Height: 9.41.8 cm (case)
Width: 3 1/8 in, Height: 3 11/16 in, Depth: 3/4 in (case)
Collection:
Historical Society of Pennsylvania cased photographs collection
Library of Congress Subjects:
Daguerreotype [sh85035408]
Postmortem photography [sh91006353]
Photography of children [sh85101337]