Portrait of an unidentified woman

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TitlePortrait of an unidentified woman

Creator nameUnknown

Creator nationality/cultureUnknown

Creator rolePhotographer

Creation datec. 1840–1860

Object typePhotograph

MaterialsSixth plate daguerreotype

LocationLibrary of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C.

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2004664392/

Accession numberDAG no. 1211

SubjectsPortrait photography--United StatesPhotography--History--19th centuryWomen--PortraitsDaguerreotypes--1840-1860

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1. Prying Eyes and Middle-Class Magic in The House of the Seven Gables

Shawn Michelle Smith

American Archives: Gender, Race, and Class in Visual Culture

In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s House of the Seven Gables, Holgrave describes daguerreotypy as a process of making pictures “out of sunshine” and asserts, “There is a wonderful insight in heaven’s broad and simple sunshine...

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Shawn Michelle Smith

PublisherPrinceton University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.11-28

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00342.2

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-23313&redirecttoanchor=92159

Chapter subject tags:Racism--United States--History--19th centuryHawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864. House of the seven gablesPortrait photography--United States--19th centurySocial classes--United States--History--19th centuryWomen and gender in art--United States--19th centuryDaguerreotype--United States--History--19th centuryAmerican literature--19th century

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