Elizabeth Cuthbert Roberts at around the age of five years and six months daguerreotype, 1857

Permanent ID:
6889
Date:
1857
Image Description:
Image: 1/6 plate; Young girl standing with arm propped on cloth-covered posing table adorned with a book, hair parted in the center and covering the ears with ringlets, wearing a short-sleeved striped dress with ribbons at the shoulders, white stockings, with the lace edge of petticoat seen beneath the hem of the dress. Preserver: Straight but more ornate (1850s). Mat: Nonpariel with matte finish (mid 1840s to mid 1850s). Case: Leather-covered wood frame embossed with a floral design on the front, and a scarce geometric design (Berg No. 5-81) on the back, with an interior gilded edge trim, a red velvet pinchpad, and a red velvet cushion embossed with a geometric design (ca. 1850).
Inscription:
(typed on paper): 10 / 1857 daguerreotype by WILLARD of Elizabeth Cuthbert Roberts [1852 - 1934] at / around the age of five years and six months (Enclosed note)

(printed on paper): two others they are unequal. In E / the northern continent which is the s / Australia, it is the continent of the sou / These views of Steffens, even without / a physical theory of the phenomena, a / high interest, and lead us to consider th / continents under a point of view of / which we shall by-and-by see the utility / But none of the authors who occupie / these questions of configuration and of / terrestrial spaces, has done so in a ma / and more fruitful in important results, (Paper liner in back of case behind image package)

(embossed on brass): WILLARD (Bottom right corner of mat)
Format:
Daguerreotype
Dimensions:
Width: 7.0 cm, Height: 8.2 cm
Width: 2 3/4 in, Height: 3 7/32 in
Width: 8.1 cm, Height: 9.2 cm, Depth: 1.6 cm
Width: 3 3/16 in, Height: 3 5/8 in, Depth: 21/32 in
Collection:
Roberts family Photographs
Related People or Organizations:
Hyland, Jean H. (was donated by)
Roberts, Elizabeth Cuthbert (depicted)
Willard, Oliver H. (photographer)
Library of Congress Subjects:
Daguerreotype
Photography of children