[Elderly woman wearing bonnet]

[Elderly woman wearing bonnet]

Photograph

[Elderly woman wearing bonnet]

ca. 1855
Daguerreotype with applied color
Image: 2 3/4 × 2 1/4 in. (7 × 5.7 cm) (1/6 plate)
Case: 3 5/8 × 3 1/4 × 5/8 in. (9.2 × 8.3 × 1.6 cm)
Purchase
1969.0202.0033
Inscriptions Inscribed in pen on applied label on spine of case: 318
Entry 318 in Mackay's notebook (located in library): Fine daguerreotype of unknown woman past middle age, in white bonnet & collar, and coat. Wrinkled skin. From Alexandria, Va. 1.35
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