Barbara Frietchie

Barbara Frietchie

Item Information

Title:
Barbara Frietchie
Description:
Black and white studio portrait of Barbara Frietchie. Subject is a Caucasian female with body facing slightly right and head facing front. Subject has dark hair parted in the middle and pulled along the sides of her face. Hair is covered by a white head covering which is long on the sides and comes down along the sides of subject's face. Subject has a white under blouse with a darker shawl [?] over.
Photographer:
Brady, Mathew B., approximately 1823-1896
Date:
[ca. 1880]
Format:
Photographs
Genre:
Cartes de visite
Portrait photographs
Location:
New Bedford Free Public Library
Earl D. Wilson Collection Photographs Box 1, Folder 42 (shelf locator)
Collection (local):
Earle D. Wilson Collection
Places:
District of Columbia > Washington
Extent:
1 photograph : print on card mount ; mount 10 x 7 cm (cartes de visite format)
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Notes:
Title from item.
Additional information from accompanying material: Image contrast is poor. Image is unevenly cropped on top edge. Image is unevenly mounted closer to the top and right of a cardboard mount. Printed in black on bottom front margin: "Barbara Frietchie/Up from the meadows rich with corn,/Clear in the cool September morn,/The clustered spires of Frederick stand/Green-walled by the hills of Maryland. [Over.]" Studio name and address printed in black on lower front margin of cardboard mount. On the back of the cardboard mount the rest of the poem about Barbara Frietchie is printed in black.
Notes (date):
Date from accompanying materials.
Accession #:
2004.004
Identifier:
2004.004.0042