Three-quarter length portrait of a seated, young, white woman with brown hair. She rests an elbow on a book on a table beside her and holds a daguerreotype in her opposite gloved hand. She sits in front of a painted landscape backdrop depicting high cliffs near a body of water., Title supplied by cataloger., Pad: Faded rust colored velvet with an eagle at the top. Photographer's imprint: "Daguerreotype artist, Goodridge's Extra Sky- Light Gallery, York, Pa.", Mat: Brass nonpareil., Case: Leather. Within a nonpareil-like border, striated lines surround a geometric design in the center. Same design on verso. Front cover detached., See John Vincent Jezierski's Enterprising images: The Goodridge brothers, African American photographers, 1847-1922 (Detroit, Michigan: Wayne State University, 2000) and "'Dangerous opportunity': Glenalvin J. Goodridge and early photography in York Pennsylvania," Pennsylvania history. (Spring 1997, vol. 64, no. 2), pp. 310-333 for additional information on Goodridge., Accessioned 2001., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Goodridge, an African American daguerreotypist, ambrotypist, and photographer, operated a gallery in York, Pennsylvania from 1847 to 1862. He primarily produced daguerreotypes from 1847 to around 1855.
Facing very slightly right is young, handsome Henry Charles Lea. His long hair, parted on the side, frames his face. Pale hand-colored pink on his cheeks., Pad: Burgundy velvet, No design., Mat: Oval., Case: Leather. The design is three concentric circles. A cross is in the smallest circle., Included in the case is a lock of Henry Charles Lea's hair., Gift of Charles Lea Hudson, Ann L. Salmon, and Mathew C. Hudson.
Date
ca. 1845
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.2006.32.10]
