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The Letter

Artist Southworth & Hawes (American, active 1843-1861; Albert Sands Southworth, 1811-1894; Josiah Johnson Hawes, 1808-1901)
Dateca. 1850
MediumDaguerreotype
DimensionsPlate (whole): 8 1/2 × 6 1/2 inches (21.59 × 16.51 cm)
Framed: 13 × 11 × 1 1/2 inches (33.02 × 27.94 × 3.81 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.281
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DescriptionImage of two young women wearing long dresses seated beside one another; they are facing the left edge of the frame. The woman in front holds a letter in her lap. This whole plate daguerreotype is housed inside of a modern frame.
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recto overall
Southworth & Hawes
ca. 1850
2017.44.17
Students from the Emerson School for Girls
Southworth & Hawes
ca. 1850-1855
2005.27.280
Alice Mary Hawes
Southworth & Hawes
ca. 1853-1855
2005.27.14
image recto overall with frame
Southworth & Hawes
ca. 1843-1845
2005.27.13
Frost on a Window
Southworth & Hawes
ca. 1850
2005.27.15
Charles Sumner
Southworth & Hawes
ca. 1854
2005.27.449
Portrait of seated man
Southworth & Hawes
ca. 1843-1844
2005.27.4814
recto overall
Southworth & Hawes
ca. 1850
2017.44.18
recto overall
Southworth & Hawes
ca. 1850-1851; printed 1912
2020.11.4
Two ladies reading a letter
Jean-Pierre Thierry
ca. 1845
2015.8.42
Group at Niagara Falls
Platt D. Babbitt
ca. 1853
2005.27.249
Two Children
William H. Tilford
ca. 1853-1855
2005.27.349