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This daguerreotype of a young woman resides in a case made of leather-covered wood. A small clasp opens and closes the case. When the case is opened up, two distinct parts are revealed. The left-hand side has a worn red velvet embossed with a leaf…

This daguerreotype in a case features a young woman associated with the Gardner family of Exeter, Rhode Island. She is wearing a striped, one-piece dress. Draped bodices were popular in the 1830s and 1840s. During the 1830s, the fabric would go from…

This photograph is a tinted ambrotype, which is typically kept in a case such as this one to protect the image from sunlight and heat. Ambrotypes appeared in the early 1850s and became very popular, displacing the early daguerreotype. The well-worn…

Three generations are having their photograph taken on the porch of a house, sometime around 1900. Two older women stand at the back, each dressed in a light-colored blouse with a dark skirt. One blouse buttons down the front, as evidenced by the…

Mary Whitlock (1892-1977), the founding mother of URI’s Historic Textile and Costume Collection, is seen here in her high school graduation outfit. She wears a light-colored dress with a stand-up collar, full sleeves, and floor-length skirt. She is…

The sitter, whose photograph was taken at Schultze located at 297-299 Fulton Street in Brooklyn, wears what is probably a matching three-piece suit in a tattersall plaid (the trousers are not visible). The silhouette is barrel-chested, which was…

The photograph was taken at the studio of H. A. Lesure, 207 Main Street, Danbury, Connecticut. The little boy wears a short two-piece dress, which indicates that he is preschool age. For most of the nineteenth century, boys under five years of age…

This post-card photograph features four women in a field wearing shirtwaists and dark skirts. Shirtwaists were new in the 1890s, and women wore them for many occasions, including sport activities. Many American factories manufactured shirtwaists for…

This photograph was taken at the studio of Bundy & Stoddard, 320 Chapel Street, New Haven, Connecticut. According to LangdonRoad.com, Bundy & Stoddard operated at that address in 1884 and 1885. That date corresponds to the fashion worn by the…

This girl, named Elsie Beers, was photographed by C. A. Blackman in Danbury, Connecticut where she lived. Elsie was listed as attending a Normal School in Providence, Rhode Island, in summer, 1909. Normal schools educated high school students to…