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[Mary Barnes Swift with her great nephew Robert J. Swift] [graphic].
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Creator
Swift, Henry B., photographer.
Title
[Mary Barnes Swift with her great nephew Robert J. Swift] [graphic].
Publisher
Philadelphia
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1851
Date
ca. 1851
Physical Description
1 photograph : daguerreotype ; 1/6 plate.
Description
Portrait of the photographer's mother with a young boy who may be her great nephew, Robert. The boy is leaning against the older woman who is holding his hand in her lap. She wears a patterned dress and an aporn.
Notes
Cased photographs retrospective conversion project.
Pad: Red velvet with geometric design.
Mat: Modified nonpareil.
Case: Leather. Mixed flowers within an ornate nonpareil like border. The design of the case is called Bouquet of Flowers and is plate 134 in American Miniature Case Art by Floyd and Marion Rinhart (Cranbury, New Jersey: A. S. Barnes and Co., Inc., 1969.) Produced in quantity, circa 1851. A different design with spray of flowers in a rectangular border is on verso.
Accompanying manuscript note reads: Papa and Great grandmother Swift, born Barnes.
See Henry B. Swift research file.
Subject
Swift, Mary Barnes, 1795-1866.
Genre
Daguerreotypes -- 1850-1860.
Portrait photographs -- 1850-1860.
Photograph cases -- 1850-1860.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Cased photos [P.2004.9.1]
Accession number
P.2004.9.1
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Cased Photograph Collection
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