Nellie Mears, 1881

daguerreotype

PHOTOGRAPHS - DAGUERREOTYPES
1881
glass; wood; velvet; leather
overall (open): 2-7/8 x 4-5/8 x 1/4 in.; image: 2-1/2 x 2 in.

Daguerreotype; Nellie Mears, 1881 (see Manuscript coll. 311); from the collection of Captain Richard C. Mears (1829-1899); photograph of Nellie Mears (daughter of Captain Richard C. Mears), age 14 (sent in a letter from February of 1881), seated in a studio with a background image of a ship (most likely used to represent that her father is a shipmaster); left side interior of case has a stamped velvet insert.

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