| Creator |
Simons, M. P. (Montgomery P.) photographer. |
| Title |
Hannah Davis Wood, b. 1809 [graphic] / M. P. Simons, Philada. |
| Publisher |
Philadelphia |
| Publisher |
PA. Philadelphia. 1847 |
| Date |
ca. 1847 |
| Physical Description |
1 photograph : daguerreotype ; 1/6 plate. |
| Description |
Wood is sitting primly, hands folded in her lap. She is wearing a high necked dress with a triangular collar. |
| Notes |
Cased photographs retrospective conversion project. |
|
Pad: Purple velvet. A floral spray in blue is in the center. |
|
Mat: Oval. Stamped on mat: M. P. Simons, Philada. |
|
Case: Leather. Stamped in gold in center with a bird surrounded by leaves. Gold stamping in leaf pattern along all four edges.
Same design on verso without central stamp of bird.
|
|
See Anne Ayer Verplanck, Facing Philadelphia: Social Functions of Silhouettes, Miniatures, and Daguerreotypes, 1760-1860,
(Ph.D. diss., College of William and Mary, 1996), section of Chapter IV, Wood Family Daguerreotypes, pp. 221-233. See research
folder for biographical information about the Wood Family.
|
| Subject |
Wood, Hannah Davis, b. 1809. |
| Genre |
Daguerreotypes -- 1840-1850. |
|
Portrait photographs -- 1840-1850. |
|
Photograph cases -- 1840-1850. |
| Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Cased photos [P.8926.19] |
| Accession number |
P.8926.19 |
