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Elizabeth Cuthbert Roberts at around the age of five years and six months daguerreotype, 1857
Elizabeth Cuthbert Roberts at around the age of five years and six months daguerreotype, 1857
Elizabeth Cuthbert Roberts at around the age of five years and six months daguerreotype, 1857
Elizabeth Cuthbert Roberts at around the age of five years and six months daguerreotype, 1857
Elizabeth Cuthbert Roberts at around the age of five years and six months daguerreotype, 1857
Elizabeth Cuthbert Roberts at around the age of five years and six months daguerreotype, 1857
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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 (image)
Width: 2 3/4 in, Height: 3 7/32 in (image)
Width: 8.1 cm, Height: 9.2 cm, Depth: 1.6 cm (case)
Width: 3 3/16 in, Height: 3 5/8 in, Depth: 21/32 in (case)
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 [info:lc/authorities/subjects/sh85035408]
Photography of children [info:lc/authorities/subjects/sh85101337]