[Quarter-Plate Daguerreotype]: Class Picture Students of the Hartford Female Seminary. Class of 1854[?]

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Quarter-plate daguerreotype, a multiple image showing 24 portraits of women from the Hartford Female Seminary. The image has been resealed and is housed in what is likely the original full-leather case. Unsigned, but we've seen a similar image with the name of the photographers, (Bartlett Gallery of Hartford) incised on the velvet in the case facing the image. A little tarnish at the very edges of the image, else very near fine. From the Collection of Julian Woolf. Information from another estate from whence the other image came indicates that one of the students in the daguerreotype (second row from the bottom, extreme left) was from the Bird family of Connecticut. The Hartford Female Seminary was established in 1823 by Catharine Beecher and was one of the first major educational institutions for women in the US. By 1826 it had enrolled nearly 100 students and implemented radical programs such as physical education courses for women. Beecher's sister, Harriet Beecher Stowe taught at the school beginning in November of 1827. A remarkable image documenting an important and early school for women. We have seen an image similar to this group image, and one could speculate that one was made for each member of the Class. N° de ref. del artículo 458829

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