Details
Creator Swift, Henry B., photographer.
Title Elizabeth Swift Nixon [graphic] / H. B. Swift, No. 312 Market Street.
Publisher Philadelphia
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1853
Date ca. 1853
Physical Description 1 photograph : daguerreotype ; 1/6 plate.
Description Seated portrait of the photographer's sister resting her right elbow on a column. Her right hand is touching her cheek.
Notes Cased photographs retrospective conversion project.
Pad: Faded red velvet embossed : H. B. Swift, No. 312 Market Street.
Mat: Nonpareil.
Case: Leather. Mixed flower design in a modified oval. Geometric design on verso.
Accompanied by manuscript note: Great aunt Elizabeth Swift Nixon, wife of Rev. Henry Nixon & sister of H.B. Swift. Elizabeth Swift married Henry Nixon in 1852.
See Henry B. Swift research file.
Genre Daguerreotypes -- 1850-1860.
Portrait photographs -- 1850-1860.
Photograph cases -- 1850-1860.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Cased photos [P.2004.9.3]
Accession number P.2004.9.3