[Woman holding a book]
Photograph
Unidentified
Maker
[Woman holding a book]
ca. 1850
Daguerreotype with applied color
Image: 2 5/8 × 2 1/4 in. (6.7 × 5.7 cm) (1/6 plate)
Case: 3 5/8 × 3 1/8 × 5/8 in. (9.2 × 7.9 × 1.6 cm)
Purchase
1969.0201.0020
Inscriptions Inscribed in pen on applied label on spine of case: 283
Entry 283 in Mackay's notebook (located in library): Excellent daguerreotype of female negro slave. Very nicely dressed in fancy dress, beautifully tinted. Holding book, wearing old gold pencil on long cord, brooch & bracelet. Very fine. Must have been very well liked by master & mistress. Taken 1845-55. From early pre-Civil War days. Ancestor of S.F. negro family. (.75)
Entry 283 in Mackay's notebook (located in library): Excellent daguerreotype of female negro slave. Very nicely dressed in fancy dress, beautifully tinted. Holding book, wearing old gold pencil on long cord, brooch & bracelet. Very fine. Must have been very well liked by master & mistress. Taken 1845-55. From early pre-Civil War days. Ancestor of S.F. negro family. (.75)
