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Creator Goodridge, Glenalvin J., 1829-1867, daguerreotypist.
Title [Portrait of an unidentified young woman holding a daguerreotype] [graphic] / Daguerreotype artist G.J. Goodridge's Extra Sky-Light Gallery York, Pa.
Publisher York, Pa
Publisher PA. York. 1853
Date [ca. 1853]
Physical Description 1 photograph : hand colored daguerreotype ; 1/6 plate, 9 x 7 cm
Description Three-quarter length portrait of a seated, young, white woman with brown hair. She rests an elbow on a book on a table beside her and holds a daguerreotype in her opposite gloved hand. She sits in front of a painted landscape backdrop depicting high cliffs near a body of water.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Pad: Faded rust colored velvet with an eagle at the top. Photographer's imprint: "Daguerreotype artist, Goodridge's Extra Sky- Light Gallery, York, Pa."
Mat: Brass nonpareil.
Case: Leather. Within a nonpareil-like border, striated lines surround a geometric design in the center. Same design on verso. Front cover detached.
See John Vincent Jezierski's Enterprising images: The Goodridge brothers, African American photographers, 1847-1922 (Detroit, Michigan: Wayne State University, 2000) and "'Dangerous opportunity': Glenalvin J. Goodridge and early photography in York Pennsylvania," Pennsylvania history. (Spring 1997, vol. 64, no. 2), pp. 310-333 for additional information on Goodridge.
Accessioned 2001.
Description revised 2021.
Access points revised 2021.
Biographical / historical note Goodridge, an African American daguerreotypist, ambrotypist, and photographer, operated a gallery in York, Pennsylvania from 1847 to 1862. He primarily produced daguerreotypes from 1847 to around 1855.
Subject Backdrops.
Daguerreotypes -- Pennsylvania -- York.
Studio props.
Women -- Clothing & dress -- Pennsylvania -- York.
Women -- Pennsylvania -- York.
African American photographers -- Pennsylvania -- York.
Genre Daguerreotypes -- Hand-colored -- 1850-1860.
Portrait photographs -- 1850-1860.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Cased photos - Goodridge [P.9989]
Accession number P.9989