[Portrait of Lydia Maria Child] (LOC)

Whipple, John Adams,, 1822-1891,, photographer.

 

[Portrait of Lydia Maria Child]

 

[Boston] : [John A. Whipple], [ca. 1865]

 

1 photograph : albumen print on card mount ; mount 10 x 6 cm (carte de visite format)

 

Notes:

Photograph shows Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880), abolitionist, author and women's rights advocate, posed reading a book.

Title devised by Library staff.

Date based on year Whipple moved his studio to 297 Washington Street, Boston.

Photograph is housed in an album. Album page has decorative gold borders framing the print. DLC

"L.M. Child"--on album page below photograph. DLC

"John A. Whipple"--on bottom left of album page. DLC

Please use the digital image in the online catalog to preserve the original photograph.

Collection of the Library of Congress and the National Museum of African American History & Culture.

Purchased by the Library of Congress and the National Museum of African American History and Culture; Swann Galleries; 2017.

Formerly owned by Emily Howland. DLC

Forms part of the Emily Howland photograph album, p. 23.

 

Subjects:

Child, Lydia Maria,--1802-1880.

Howland, Emily,--1827-1929--Friends & associates.

Reading--1860-1870.

 

Format: Portrait photographs--1860-1870.

Albumen prints--1860-1870.

Cartes de visite--1870-1870.

 

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

 

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

 

Part Of: Emily Howland photograph album (DLC) 2017656258

 

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.54178

hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.54179

 

Call Number: LOT 15020, p. 23

 

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