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Portrait of a Girl
1857-1866
Littlefield Parsons & Co.
USA: Massachusetts, Florence
Daguerreotype in case; glass, metal, wood, leather, cloth
Gift of the Estate of Russell J. and Vera L. Wilder
75.69.35

Daguerreotype photograph of unidentified young girl seated on high backed Gothic style chair, wearing a locket; thermoplastic case with design of woman on a horse holding a hawk, boy and dog below, case labeled: "Littlefield, Parsons & Co. / Manufacturers of / Daguerreotype Cases. / L.P. & Co. are the sole / Proprietors and only legal Manu / facturers of UNION CASES, with the / Embracing Riveted Hinge. / Patented October 14, 1856, / and April 12, 1857."



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