A stern, frowning Good is wearing a tight fitting dark dress with a white bodice, a white lace bonnet, and patterned shawl. Painted backdrop of wooded landscape., Daguerreotypist attribution based on painted backdrop employed by Samuel Broadbent., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Red velvet. Geometric design with a lyre like design in center., Mat: Octagonal., Case: Leather. A spray of roses in a modified nonpareil border. The design of the case is called A Spray of Roses and is plate 131 in American Miniature Case Art by Floyd and Marion Rinhart (Cranbury, New Jersey: A. S. Barnes and Co., Inc., 1969.) One of the most popular case designs in the early 1850's. Variants were made by a number of casemakers., Accompanying manuscript note reads: Miriam Good. She was the wife of Ziba Pyle and mother of Elizabeth Good Pyle who married Thomas Williams. Taken about 1850., See the article The Ties That Bind: Daguerreotypes and the Roberts and Thompson Families by Sarah Weatherwax in The Daguerreian Annual 1999 (Pittsburgh, Pa.: The Daguerreian Society, 1999) pgs. 210-221 for information about the Roberts and Thompson Families. See also the Board Report for January 20, 1998.
Creator
Broadbent, Samuel, 1810-1880, photographer
Date
ca. 1851
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9562.7]
