| Creator |
Broadbent, Samuel, 1810-1880, photographer. |
| Title |
Miriam Good. [graphic]. |
| Publisher |
Philadelphia |
| Publisher |
PA. Philadelphia. 1850 |
| Date |
ca. 1851 |
| Physical Description |
1 photograph : daguerreotype ; 1/4 plate. |
| Description |
A stern, frowning Good is wearing a tight fitting dark dress with a white bodice, a white lace bonnet, and patterned shawl.
Painted backdrop of wooded landscape.
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| Notes |
Daguerreotypist attribution based on painted backdrop employed by Samuel Broadbent. |
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Cased photographs retrospective conversion project. |
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Pad: Red velvet. Geometric design with a lyre like design in center. |
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Mat: Octagonal. |
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Case: Leather. A spray of roses in a modified nonpareil border. The design of the case is called A Spray of Roses and is plate
131 in American Miniature Case Art by Floyd and Marion Rinhart (Cranbury, New Jersey: A. S. Barnes and Co., Inc., 1969.) One
of the most popular case designs in the early 1850's. Variants were made by a number of casemakers.
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Accompanying manuscript note reads: Miriam Good. She was the wife of Ziba Pyle and mother of Elizabeth Good Pyle who married
Thomas Williams. Taken about 1850.
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See the article 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) pgs. 210-221 for information about the Roberts and Thompson Families.
See also the Board Report for January 20, 1998.
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| Subject |
Pyle, Miriam Good. |
| Genre |
Daguerreotypes -- 1850-1860. |
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Portrait photographs -- 1850-1860. |
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Photograph cases -- 1850-1860. |
| Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Cased photos [P.9562.7] |
| Accession number |
P.9562.7 |
