[Hair bracelet "Hattie"]
Photograph
Unidentified
Maker
[Hair bracelet "Hattie"]
ca. 1850
Daguerreotype, gold plate, woven hair, glass
Image: 9/16 × 1/2 in. (1.5 × 1.3 cm)
Overall (open bracelet): 1 3/16 × 6 5/16 in. (3 × 16 cm)
Purchase
1969.0214.0010
Inscriptions Engraved on verso, C: Hattie
Inscribed in pen on applied label on verso: 476
Entry 476 in Mackay's notebook (located in library): Pair of beautifully woven hair bracelets from Van Ness descendants. Contains locket clasps of gold. One belonged to Hattie, the other of Lizzie. Tiny daguerreotype of young man and young lady in them. Very lovely. Pair- (7.50)
Inscribed in pen on applied label on verso: 476
Entry 476 in Mackay's notebook (located in library): Pair of beautifully woven hair bracelets from Van Ness descendants. Contains locket clasps of gold. One belonged to Hattie, the other of Lizzie. Tiny daguerreotype of young man and young lady in them. Very lovely. Pair- (7.50)
