Object Details
- Description
- Albumen print of Fanny Seward shown in bust portrait. The print is cut in an oval and adhered to a paper mount. Seward is facing the camera with her hair parted at the center and gathered in a snood behind her head. She wears a dark colored bodice, white standard collar, and a light and dark colored ribbon is tied in a bow at the front of her neck.
- Handwritten in graphite on the bottom center of the mount is the text "Fanny Seward / died 1865".
- The photograph is housed in the album 2017.30. The album page has a triple-lined, gold border framing the print.
- Data Source
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Photograph by
- Unidentified
- Subject of
- Frances Adeline Seward, American, 1844 - 1866
- Owned by
- Emily Howland, American, 1827 - 1929
- Date
- ca. 1860
- Credit Line
- Collection of the National Museum of African American History and Culture shared with the Library of Congress
- Medium
- albumen and silver on photographic paper
- Dimensions
- H x W (Image): 1 1/4 × 1 in. (3.2 × 2.6 cm)
- H x W (Image and Mount): 2 9/16 × 2 7/16 in. (6.5 × 6.2 cm)
- Type
- albumen prints
- portraits
