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TITLE:  [Occupational portrait of a woman working at a sewing machine]

CALL NUMBER:  DAG no. 1204

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)

RIGHTS INFORMATION:  No known restrictions on publication.

MEDIUM:  1 photograph : sixth plate daguerreotype, hand-colored.

CREATED/PUBLISHED:  [ca. 1853]

NOTES:

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

CONTROL #:  2004664427



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