Image
Description
Content/DescriptionFull length portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a landscape with ruins. The girl is seated, the boy is standing next to her.
Details
Title
[Ferdinand Claude Peterson and Mattie Peterson as children.]
Published
ca. 1858
Full Collection Name
Cased photographs and related images from The Bancroft Library pictorial collections, circa 1845-circa 1870
Other Identifiers
BANC PIC 1980.027:468--CASE
Type
Image
Format
Ambrotypes
Group portraits
Group portraits
Extent
1 photograph : ambrotype ; quarter plate, visible image 8.8 x 6.4 cm.
Archive
The Bancroft Library
Note
<physfacet label="Image Package Note">Original component parts: plate, mat, cover glass, preserver. Plate: ruby glass, faces slightly hand colored. Mat: rectangular (double elliptical). Preserver: decorative.</physfacet>;;;<physfacet label="Container or Case Note">Type: half case. Motif: geometric. Material: paper over wood. Dimensions: 11.9 x 9.5 cm. Notes: blackened well (ambrotype case).</physfacet>;;;<physfacet label="Marks, Inscriptions and Accompanying Material">On envelope (handwritten): F.C. Peterson / Mattie Peterson / Ambrotype.</physfacet>;;;
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