Details
Creator Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg) photographer.
Title [Charlotte Conarroe, b. 1804] [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1857
Date ca. 1857
Physical Description 1 photograph : daguerreotype ; 1/4 plate.
Description Conarroe is sitting sideways facing right. Her hair is parted in the middle and pulled back, with curls hanging down on the sides. She is wearing lace gloves and her left arm is resting on a table with a patterned tablecloth. A book and a beaded purse (?) rest on the table beside her.
Notes Cased photographs retrospective conversion project.
Pad: Purple silk.
Mat: Ornamented octagonal.
Case: Leather. Spray of roses in a square border. The design of the case is called The Delicate Roses, variant and is plate 124 in American Miniature Case Art by Floyd and Marion Rinhart (Cranbury, New Jersey: A. S. Barnes and Co., Inc., 1969.) Generally produced in large quantity, circa 1845. Same design on verso.
See Conarroe Family research file.
Gift of Hugh P. Brinton, January 3, 1977.
Subject Conarroe, Charlotte, b. 1804.
Genre Daguerreotypes -- 1850-1860.
Portrait photographs -- 1850-1860.
Photograph cases -- 1850-1860.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Cased photos [8259.F.5]
Accession number 8259.F.5