| Title |
[Sallie Sherrel Bonnell Houston, 1829-1913] [graphic]. |
| Publisher |
Philadelphia |
| Publisher |
PA. Philadelphia. 1856 |
| Date |
1856 |
| Physical Description |
1 photograph : daguerreotype ; 1/9 plate. |
| Description |
Portrait of Bonnell wearing a plaid dress with a white lace collar. Her hair is parted in the middle and pulled back widely
from her face. Hand colored pink on cheeks.
|
| Notes |
Cased photographs retrospective conversion project. |
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Pad: Faded gold colored velvet. |
|
Mat: Ornamented oval. |
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Case: Leather, in the shape of a book. No design. See Fig. 42 in American Miniature Case Art by Floyd and Marion Rinhart (Cranbury,
New Jersey: A. S. Barnes and Co., Inc., 1969.) Stamped at bottom of inside front cover H. A. Eichmeyer. Patent Feb. 27, 1855.
Henry Adolph Eichmeyer, of Philadelphia, was a case manufacturer.
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Filed under Eichmeyer. The portrait was taken at the time of her April 8, 1856 marriage to Henry Howard Houston (See P.8896
for a daguerreotype of Houston.) See Research File.
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Gift of Charlotte Dallett, great granddaughter of Sallie Bonnell, 2003. |
| Subject |
Houston, Sallie Sherrel Bonnell, 1829-1913. |
| Genre |
Daguerreotypes -- 1850-1860. |
|
Portrait photographs -- 1850-1860. |
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Photograph cases -- 1850-1860. |
| Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Cased photos [P.2003.11.1] |
| Accession number |
P.2003.11.1 |
