Lesson 7 Document 24
TITLE: [Occupational portrait of a woman working at a sewing
machine]
CALL NUMBER: DAG no. 1204[P&P]
Original served by appointment only.
REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZC4-3598 (color film copy
transparency post-1992)
LC-USZ6-2058 (b&w film copy neg. post-1992)
LC-USZ62-106400 (b&w film copy neg. pre-1992)
MEDIUM: 1 photograph : sixth plate daguerreotype, hand-colored.
CREATED/PUBLISHED: [ca. 1853]
NOTES: Available on the Internet; Library of Congress World Wide Web site
(http://lcweb.loc.gov). Photographer unidentified. Published under
the title: "Seamstress." Case: variant of Rinhart 124. The daguerreotype is
housed in an unmatched case provided by the vendor. Purchase; 1991; (DLC/PP-1991:219).
Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Published under
title "Seamstress" in: Eyes of the Nation : a visual history of the United
States / Vincent Virga and the curators of the Library of Congress ; historical
commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York : Knopf, 1997. Exhibit loan 4105-L.
SUBJECTS:
Seamstresses--1850-1860.
Sewing machines--1850-1860.
FORMAT:
Portrait photographs 1850-1860.
Daguerreotypes 1850-1860.
OTHER TITLE:
Seamstress.
PART OF: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress)
REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
DIGITAL ID: (color film copy transparency post-1992) cph
3g03598 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g03598
(b&w film copy neg. post-1992) cph 3d02058 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3d02058
(b&w film copy neg. pre-1992) cph 3c06400 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c06400
CARD #: dag1997000568/PP
