Photos, People - Photo of Emily Fowler Clark
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1840 – 1860
"carbon" photograph
8 1/4 in H
X
6 5/8 in W
Measurement Notes: sight
14 1/4 in H X 14 1/4 in W Measurement Notes: in frame
14 1/4 in H X 14 1/4 in W Measurement Notes: in frame
"Carbon" photographic portrait of Mrs. Emily Fowler Clark Bushnell (10/25/1829-1/10/1869). Emily was the daughter of Samuel and Mary Emeline Fowler Clark. She married Cornelius Scranton Bushnell, of New Haven on July 19, 1849. They had nine sons and one daughter. She died just weeks after the birth of her tenth child. The image is under glass in stamped copper frame with large pieces of fruit and stippled background. Mid 19th century. "Carbon" photographic portrait of Emily Fowler Clark (1829-1869), wife of Cornelius Scranton Bushnell. Under glass in stamped copper frame with large pieces of fruit and stippled background. The carbon process, initially a black-and-white process using lampblack (carbon black), was invented by Alphonse Poitevin in 1855. The process was later adapted to color. Carbon Photography is discussed at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_print.Original backboards ( see also 74.210). 6 5/8 x 8 1/4 sight; 12 3/4 x 14 1/4 in frame.
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