Occupational of a woman working at a sewing machine

Occupational of a woman working at a sewing machine Review

8x12in Print from a high-quality scan of the original.

Title: [Occupational portrait of a woman working at a sewing machine]
Other Title: Seamstress.
Date Created/Published: [ca. 1853]
Notes:
Photographer unidentified.
Published under the title: 'Seamstress.'
Case: variant of Rinhart 124.
The daguerreotype is housed in an unmatched case provided by the vendor.
Purchase; 1991; (DLC/PP-1991:219).
Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).
Published under title 'Seamstress' in: Eyes of the Nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and the curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York : Knopf, 1997.
Exhibit loan 4105-L.
Exhibited: 'The Great American Hall of Wonders : Art, Science, and Invention in the Nineteenth Century' at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., July 2011-January 2012.
Subjects:
Seamstresses--1850-1860.
Sewing machines--1850-1860.
guerreotypes--1850-1860.
Portrait photographs--1850-1860.
Bookmark /2004664427/

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Source: Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.