Details
Creator Sarony, Napoleon, 1821-1896, photographer.
Title Mrs. H. Beecher Stowe. [graphic] / Sarony, 37 Union Sqr. N.Y.
Publisher [New York]
Publisher N.Y. New York. 1875
Date [ca. 1880]
Physical Description 1 photograph : albumen on card mount ; mount 17 x 11 cm (6.5 x 4.25 in.) (cabinet card format)
Description Bust-length portrait of the abolitionist and author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Stowe, wearing her hair in in a bun with curls around her forehead and attired in a headband, a dark-colored dress with a white, ruffled collar around the neck, a brooch, and a necklace, faces slightly right.
Notes Title from manuscript note written on recto.
Date inferred from presented age of sitter.
Mount contains red border.
Gift of Dr. Milton and Joan Wohl, 1991.
Description revised 2021.
Access points revised 2021.
Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Biographical / historical note Sarony, the leading photographer of celebrity portrait cabinet cards in the 1870s and 1880s, paid the highest sitter fees of the time and often acted as artistic designer rather than technician of the portraits.
Subject Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 -- Portraits.
Women abolitionists -- United States.
Women authors, American.
Genre Albumen prints -- 1870-1880.
Cabinet photographs -- 1870-1880.
Portrait photographs -- 1870-1880.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| cabinet card portraits - sitter - Stowe [P.9363.12]
Accession number P.9363.12