Content/DescriptionFull length, standing portrait of a boy with an elaborate painted studio backdrop. Subject probably age five to seven. Image reversed (wrong-reading).
Details
Title
[Ferdinand Claude Peterson as a boy.]
Published
ca. 1856-1860?
Full Collection Name
Cased photographs and related images from The Bancroft Library pictorial collections, circa 1845-circa 1870
1 photograph : ambrotype ; sixth plate, visible image 6.4 x 5.1 cm.
Archive
The Bancroft Library
Note
<physfacet label="Image Package Note">Original component parts: plate, mat, cover glass, preserver. Plate: violet glass. Mat: decorative oval. Preserver: decorative with oval motif.</physfacet>;;;<physfacet label="Container or Case Note">Type: case. Motif: geometric - cross with gold border. Material: leather over wood. Dimensions: 9.4 x 8 cm. Pad: red velvet with embossed motif (tambourine?).</physfacet>;;;<physfacet label="Marks, Inscriptions and Accompanying Material">Blind stamped on mat: Dean & Emerson patent applied [for] / Worcester Mass. No. 10.</physfacet>;;;
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