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Elizabeth Earl Collins with son Thomas
Elizabeth Earl Collins with son Thomas
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Elizabeth Earl Collins with son Thomas

Permanent ID:
7267
Date:
circa 1853
Image Description:
Image: 1/4 plate; Seated woman wearing a dark three-quarter length sleeved dress with a whitework collar and undersleeves, hair parted in the center and puffed out over the ears, with a child on her lap dressed in a striped roundabout bias cut and buttoned on a diagonal. Preserver: Straight and embossed with simple pattern (after 1850). Mat: Oval with matte finish (ca.1850). Case: Leather covered wood frame embossed with a common "Vase with Fruits and Flowers" design [Plate 108 on page 110 of "American Miniature Case Art" by Floyd and Marion Rinhart (Cranbury, New Jersey: A. S. Barnes and Co., Inc., 1969)] on the front and back, with exterior and interior gilded edge trim, and a red velvet pinchpad, and a red velvet cushion embossed with a floral design (ca. 1856).
Inscription:
(printed on paper): Elizabeth and son, Thomas Earl Collins (1849-1926) (Identifying List for Daguerreotypes and Ambrotypes (housed with collection))

(pencil on applied label): #8 daguerreotype / Elizabeth Earl Collins / with son - Thomas / (about 1853) (Verso of adjacent color photographic reproduction)

(ink on paper): Elizabeth E. Collins / & son T. Earl Collins (Label sewn on to case cushion)
Format:
Daguerreotype
Dimensions:
Width: 8.2 cm, Height: 10.8 cm (image)
Width: 3 7/32 in, Height: 4 1/4 in (image)
Width: 9.4 9.4 cm, Height: 11.8 cm, Depth: 1.8 cm (case)
Width: 3 11/16 in, Height: 4 21/32 in, Depth: 23/32 in (case)
Collection:
Earl, Collins, and Robeson families cased photos
Related People or Organizations:
Barbara Sherman (was donated by)
Earl, Elizabeth Budd Kner (depicted)
Collins, Thomas Earl (depicted)
Isaac Collins, 1824-1902 (relates to)
Library of Congress Subjects:
Portrait photography--United States [info:lc/authorities/subjects/sh2010107725]
Daguerreotype [info:lc/authorities/subjects/sh85035408]
Photography of children [info:lc/authorities/subjects/sh85101337]