Hand colored pink on cheeks and on flowers on table., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Faded red velvet. No design., Mat: Oval., Case: Leather. It is shaped like a book and is similar to Fig, 41 in American Miniature Case Art by Floyd and Marion Rinhart (Cranbury, New Jersey: A. S. Barnes and Co., Inc., 1969.) The case manufacturer is identified as H. A. Eichmeyer of Philadelphia., Accompanying manuscript note reads: Julianna Wood, aged 5 years., 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.
Date
ca. 1852
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.8926.15]
