[Daguerreotype of an unidentified woman].

Description

Title: [Daguerreotype of an unidentified woman].
Creator: Goodridge, Glenalvin J., 1829-1867, photographer
Published / Created: [circa 1850s]
Publication Place: York, Pennsylvania
Abstract: Daguerreotype of an unidentified woman, taken by Glenalvin J. Goodridge, York, Pennsylvania, circa 1850s. Image depicts an elderly white woman dressed in a satin dress, white bonnet, and fingerless lace gloves. Photograph is housed in an embossed leather case with clasps and a red velvet insert facing the image
Description: Glenalvin J. Goodridge (1829-1867) was an African American studio photographer. He opened his studio in York, Pennsylvania in 1847 and specialized in daguerrotypes and ambrotypes.
Text in English.
Title devised by cataloger.
Place of creation from photographer's name cut into red velvet insert: "J. Goodridge, York, Pa.".
Date of creation supplied by cataloger.
Provenance: Purchased from Between the Covers on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2019.
Extent: 1 photograph : visible image 68 x 53 mm, in leather case 93 x 82 mm (sixth plate format)
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Portraits
Cased photographs
Daguerreotypes (photographs)
Photographs
Studio portraits
Material: daguerreotype ;
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): Pennsylvania
York.
United States
York
Subject (Name): Goodridge, Glenalvin J., 1829-1867.
Subject (Topic): African American photographers
Photographers
Women
Subjects: Goodridge, Glenalvin J., 1829-1867
African American photographers
African American photographers > Pennsylvania > York
Photographers > Pennsylvania > York
Photographers > United States > 19th century
Women > Pennsylvania > York > Portraits
United States > 19th century

Access: Public
Rights: The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Citation: Glenalvin J. Goodridge, Daguerreotype of an Unidentified Woman. James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection in the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.