Object Details
- Description
- Carte-de-visite of Mary Barker Bowen shown in bust portrait. Her body faces the camera, but her head is turned a quarter to her left and she looks off camera. Her hair is parted at the center and pulled into a chignon at the nape of her neck. She wears a dark bodice with a white collar and an oval brooch at her front neck. The bottom portion of the image is purposefully faded in the popular style of the time.
- Handwritten in graphite on the bottom of the print is the name "Mrs. Bowen" with "1866" written below the print on the mount. There is a green and white 3 cent canceled revenue stamp on the back of the print featuring George Washington with HU / NY written over it in ink with Henry Ulke's mark printed above it.
- The photograph is housed in the album 2017.30. The album page has a triple-lined, gold border framing the print. Handwritten in graphite at the lower left corner of the album page is the text "HENRY ULKE".
- Data Source
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Photograph by
- Henry Ulke, German American, 1821 - 1910
- Subject of
- Mary Barker Bowen, American, 1815 - 1882
- Owned by
- Emily Howland, American, 1827 - 1929
- Date
- 1866
- 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 on card mount
- Dimensions
- H x W (Image): 3 3/4 × 2 3/8 in. (9.6 × 6 cm)
- H x W (Image and Mount): 4 3/16 × 2 7/16 in. (10.7 × 6.2 cm)
- Type
- cartes-de-visite
- albumen prints
- portraits
