Unidentified woman [photograph], 1859.

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Unidentified woman [photograph], 1859.

Hand-colored sixth-plate daguerreotype in leather case of an unidentified woman, possibly a member of the Wheelwright family. The photograph was taken in November of 1859 by John Adams Whipple of Boston, Mass.

1 photograph : daguerreotype, b&w, hand-colored ; visible oval image 6 1/2 x 5 1/2 cm. (sixth-plate), in case 9 1/2 x 8 1/2 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7639070

Massachusetts Historical Society

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Whipple, John Adams, 1822-1891

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w62j69j4 (person)

Served with the New England Women's Auxiliary Association of the United States Sanitary Commission, 1861-1866; Freedmen's Aid Society, 1866-1873; founded the New England Women's Club, 1868; Boston School Committee representative, 1875-1878; member of the Massachusetts Board of Education, 1879-1888; president of the Massachusetts School Sufrrage Association, 1880-1888; member and president of the Massachusetts Society for the University Education of Women, 1880-1886; and member of the Association...

Wheelwright family

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jj2ztd (family)