| Title |
[Elsie Todd] [graphic]. |
| Publisher |
Philadelphia |
| Date |
ca. 1845 |
| Physical Description |
1 photograph : daguerreotype ; 1/6 plate. |
| Description |
Portrait of an elderly Todd in Quaker dress. She wears eye glasses and a high white bonnet. |
| Notes |
Cased photographs retrospective conversion project. |
|
Pad: Very dark faded purple velvet. |
|
Mat: Paper. Ornamented octagonal. |
|
Case: Leather. Within a double oval is one large open flower surrounded by scrolls. No design on verso. Manuscript note inside
case reads: Elsie Todd ask Cousin Lydia.
|
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Reproduced in "The Ties That Bind: Daguerreotypes and the Roberts and Thompson Families" by Sarah Weatherwax in The Daguerreian
Annual 1999 (Pittsburgh, Pa.: The Daguerreian Society, 1999) p. 212. See also the Board Report for January 20, 1998.
|
| Subject |
Todd, Elsie. |
| Genre |
Daguerreotypes -- 1840-1850. |
|
Portrait photographs -- 1840-1850. |
|
Photograph cases -- 1840-1850. |
| Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Cased photos [P.9562.8] |
| Accession number |
P.9562.8 |
