Details
Creator Simons, M. P. (Montgomery P.) photographer.
Title [Caroline Hahn Wood] [graphic] / M. P. Simons, Phila.
Publisher Philadelphia
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1850
Date ca. 1850
Physical Description 1 photograph : daguerreotype ; 1/2 plate.
Description Seated portrait of Wood, wife of physician George Bacon Wood, in a patterned dress, looking down at an open book on a table beside her.
Notes Cased photographs retrospective conversion project.
Pad: Faded red velvet. No design.
Mat: Octagonal. Stamped on left bottom corner: Simons.
Case: Leather. No design. Stamped on verso: M. P. Simons, Phila.
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, Caroline H. (Caroline Hahn), d. 1867,
Genre Daguerreotypes -- 1840-1850.
Portrait photographs -- 1840-1850.
Photograph cases -- 1840-1850.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Cased photos [P.8926.2]
Accession number P.8926.2