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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.
Exhibited: "The Great American Hall of Wonders : Art, Science, and Invention in the Nineteenth Century" at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., July 2011-January 2012.
Exhibited: "The Sweat of Their Face : Portraying American Workers" at the Smithsonian Institution National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C., Nov. 2017 - Sept. 2018.
Exhibited as a digital copy in: "Not an Ostrich: And Other Images from America's Library" at the Annenberg Space for Photography, 2018; Business & Science section.

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01/01/1853
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National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
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