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Object Type:  Daguerreotype
Title:  Mrs. Elizabeth Thomson

Category:  8: Communication Artifact
Maker:  Zealy, James T.
Place Made:  Columbia, South Carolina
Date Made:  January 31, 1849
Materials:  Leather, fabric, glass, photographic emulsion, copper, brass
Measurements:  4.5" H x 3.75" W x 0.75" D (closed); 4.5" H x 7.5" W x 0.25" D (open)


Daguerreotype of Mrs. Elizabeth Sabb Thomson; quarter plate; image of a painting or pastel portrait of Mrs. Elizabeth Thomson; subject with bonnet tied under chin, large collar with bow; ribbons are colored blue; cheeks are colored pink; leather case; interior velvet pad; plain domed mat; note with image reads: "Mrs. Elizabeth Harrison / who was Miss Sabb. & mar- / ried William Russell Thom- / son of S Ca - / My Mother's Grand-mother / Uncle William Russell Thom- / sons portrait in parlor - / was her son - and the Uncle / who raised my mother - / with Aunt Harriet / Thompson's [illegible] - she was / his own sister, my mother's / Aunt. CJP"; widow of Lt. Col William Russell Thomson d.1807 [Rev. War S.C.] married Feb. 25th 1783 at Bellbroughton Plantation Calhoun County, SC.

V.92.123.09.23


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