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Rufus Anson — Teenage girl with bottle curls

Rufus Anson

Teenage girl with bottle curls

1855

Anson's daguerreotype demonstrates the technical precision of early American portrait photography, preserving the fashionable bottle curls hairstyle popular among young women in the 1850s.

Medium
daguerreotype, sixth plate

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Rufus Anson, Teenage girl with bottle curls, 1855

Anson's daguerreotype demonstrates the technical precision of early American portrait photography, preserving the fashionable bottle curls hairstyle popular among young women in the 1850s.

Medium
daguerreotype, sixth plate
Year
1855
Seen at
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Related themes

Nineteenth Century, Vintage, Monochrome, American, Historical, Female, Young Girl, Portrait, Figurative, Daguerreotype

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Art Institute of Chicago, Cleveland Museum of Art