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[Half-length portrait of Christiana Williams Freeman, seated]

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[Half-length portrait of Christiana Williams Freeman, seated]

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Daguerreotype shows Christiana Williams Freeman, mother of Isadora Noe and Mary Christiana Freeman.
Photographer unidentified.
Case: framed floral motif.
Label on back of case: "Christiana Williams Freeman, mother of M.C. & I.N."

Forms part of the Mary Alice Wheeler and William C. McNeill Family Collection within the Robert H. McNeill family collection.
Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).
Gift; 2013; (DLC/PP-2013:179).

The daguerreotype is a photographic process invented by the Parisian inventor and entrepreneur Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre (1787-1851) who was the first person to publicly announce a successful method of capturing images. His invention was an immediate hit, and France was soon gripped by ‘daguerreotypomania’. Daguerre released his formula and anyone was free to use it without paying a license fee – except in Britain, where he had secured a patent. Daguerreotypes required a subject to remain still for several minutes to ensure that the image would not blur.

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01/01/1855
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