[Milliner and her daughter] (LOC)

[Milliner and her daughter]

 

[ca. 1854]

 

1 photograph : ambrotype, quarter-plate, hand-colored ; 10.1 x 12.5 cm (case)

 

Notes:

Photograph shows woman and girl seated at table with bonnets and a doll.

Caption label from exhibit "American Treasures--Memory": Women's Work. Occupational portraits of women taken during the early decades of photography are exceedingly rare. The millinery business was one of the few respectable occupations available to women who sought employment. Milliners could work in their homes while they raised their families. They were paid by the piece, which provided a very small income compared with factory work. By the mid-1850s the daguerreotype had been largely replaced by the ambrotype, a faster and less expensive photographic process that used a glass plate rather than polished metal.

Title devised by Library staff.

Krainik, no. 67

Gift/Purchase; William B. Becker; 1997; (DLC/PP-1997:103).

Forms part of: Ambrotype/Tintype photograph filing series (Library of Congress).

Exhibited: American Treasures of the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 2007.

Exhibit loan 4105-L.

 

Subjects:

Women--Employment--1850-1860.

Millinery--1850-1860.

Families--1850-1860.

Girls--1850-1860.

Working mothers--1850-1860.

Bonnets--1850-1860.

 

Format: Portrait photographs--1850-1860.

Group portraits--1850-1860.

Ambrotypes--Hand-colored--1850-1860.

 

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

 

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g06024

 

Call Number: AMB/TIN no. 1341

 

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