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Daguerreotype
D030

Size
Date
Country
Artist
Sitter
Case
Colour
Mark

1/6
ca 1850-1854
USA
Unknown
Unknown
Full case
Light blue details
Double JP

 

The large photo case she's holding was a prop used by the
photographer, as it can be seen in other images from the same studio.

 

From the same studio:

 

Also see:

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The curtain, which was used often by this studio, was sometimes placed upside down.

 

Also from the same studio.
Photos taken from the internet.

 

9 studios were using a variation on this same gothic chair.
So far a total of 60 different types of chair have been found.
11 of these images came from Pennsylvania and 7 of them
are missing one of the tips. Here a few examples of this chair: