Townsend Family Group
Permanent ID:
5969Date:
circa 1855Image Description:
Image: Full plate Cutting ambrotype; Two men and one woman seated, two women standing; men dressed in light trousers and dark jackets with high back collars, both with hair parted at one side and combed up in a high puff at the forehead, the bearded man wearing a dark vest with a dark soft neck tie, collar points turned up, the second man, with neat sideburns, wears a light vest and a light horizontal neck tie with wide collar turned down; seated woman, with hair parted in the center and covered with a sheer daycap, wears a long-sleeved, light colored dress, pleated in the front from the gathered waist to back over the shoulders, cut in a low V to display the chemisette; the standing young women both wear dark silk dresses, one with buttons running up the front to the throat, the other open in a habit-front style designed to show off the chemisette, and both have long, belled sleeves, with ruffles at the shoulders, worn over white lace undersleeves, and wide whitework collars, with hair center-parted and brought smoothly down over the ears, one with dark silk ribbons in her hair; color applied to all their cheeks. Preservers: Straight but more ornate (1850s). Mats: Oval with matte finish and simple embossed design (1850). Case: Leather-covered wood-frame double cased Cutting ambrotype variation of Eickmeyer's common book-style case (Berg No. 5-75) with gilded lined edge trim both front and back interior and exterior, with royal blue velvet pinchpad and plain black (unembossed) velvet cushions (ca. 1855).Inscription:
(ink on paper): Right to left / Isaac Townsend / Rebecca (Townsend) Jacobs / Anna B. Lang (Wilson) Townsend / Samuel Townsend / Margaret (Townsend) Remington (Enclosed note)(ink on paper): Townsend / Family / group / no. 209 (Label adhered to back exterior of case)
Format:
AmbrotypeDimensions:
Width: 18.5 cm, Height: 15.5 cm (image)Width: 7 9/32 in, Height: 6 3/32 in (image)
Width: 17.2 cm, Height: 19.9 cm, Depth: 2.6 cm (case)
Width: 6 3/4 in, Height: 7 27/32 in, Depth: 1 1/32 in (case)
Collection:
Historical Society of Pennsylvania cased photographs collectionRelated People or Organizations:
Townsend, Isaac (depicted)Lang Wilson, Anna B. (depicted)
Jacobs, Rebecca (Townsend) (depicted)
Townsend, Samuel (depicted)
Remington, Margaret (Townsend) (depicted)
Library of Congress Subjects:
Ambrotype [sh85004169]
Portrait photography--United States [sh2010107725]
Photography of families [sh85101343]
Portrait photography--United States [sh2010107725]
Photography of families [sh85101343]