Details
Title [Stuart Wood as a young child.] [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1856
Date 1856
Physical Description 1 photograph : daguerreotype ; 1/6 plate.
Description Three year old Wood, hair parted neatly on the side, is looking straight ahead. His left arm is resting on a table, and he seems to be holding a hoop in his right hand.
Notes Cased photographs retrospective conversion project.
Pad: Faded and scratched purple velvet. No design.
Mat: Oval.
Case: Leather. No design on front or back. Note inside case reads: Stuart Wood, about 1856.
See Anne Ayer Verplanck, Facing Philadelphia: Social Functions of Silhouettes, Miniatures, and Daguerreotypes, 1760-1860, (Ph.D. diss., College of William and Mary, 1996), section of Chapter IV, Wood Family Daguerreotypes, pp. 221-233. See research folder for biographical information about the Wood Family.
Subject Wood, Stuart, 1853-1914,
Genre Daguerreotypes -- 1850-1860.
Portrait photographs -- 1850-1860.
Photograph cases -- 1850-1860.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Cased photos [P.8926.14]
Accession number P.8926.14