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Taken for Ramsay when going abroad in 1857
Taken for Ramsay when going abroad in 1857
Taken for Ramsay when going abroad in 1857
Taken for Ramsay when going abroad in 1857
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Taken for Ramsay when going abroad in 1857

Permanent ID:
6659
Date:
1857
Image Description:
Image: 1/6 plate; Head a shoulders of a woman with hair parted in the center and smoothed down over the head with chin length ringlets covering the ears, wearing a dark bonnet with dark ribbons set back on the head and a dark dress with a white ruffled collar. Preserver: Straight and embossed with simple pattern (after 1850). Mat: Oval with matte finish and simple embossed design (1850). Case: Leather covered wood frame embossed with a simple lined edge trim on the front and back exterior, with a gilded interior edge trim, a red velvet pinchpad, and a ruby red plain (unembossed) velvet cushion (ca. 1850).
Inscription:
(pencil on paper): Taken for / Ramsay / when going / abroad in / 1857 (Paper liner behind image package)

(embossed in brass): S. BROADBENT (Bottom left corner of mat)
Format:
Ambrotype
Dimensions:
Width: 7.0 cm, Height: 8.2 cm (image)
Width: 2 3/4 in, Height: 3 7/32 in (image)
Width: 8.0 cm, Height: 9.3 cm, Depth: 1.9 cm (case)
Width: 3 1/8 in, Height: 3 19/32 in, Depth: 3/4 in (case)
Collection:
Historical Society of Pennsylvania daguerreotypes and ambrotypes
Related Person or Organization:
Broadbent, Samuel (photographer)
Library of Congress Subjects:
Ambrotype [info:lc/authorities/subjects/sh85004169]
Portrait photography--United States [info:lc/authorities/subjects/sh2010107725]
Photographers--Marketing [info:lc/authorities/subjects/sh87001204]