Name/Title
Daguerreotype Unknown womenEntry/Object ID
100260Tags
Unknown PhotoScope and Content
(AI) Photographer & Studio Identification
The stamped markings along the bottom edge of the brass mat provide excellent provenance for the piece:
Bottom-Left: Stamped C.D. FREDRICKS, identifying the photographer as Charles DeForest Fredricks (1823–1894), one of the most successful and pioneering American photographers of the 19th century.
Bottom-Right: Stamped BROADWAY N.Y., referring to his lavish studio, known as the "Photographic Temple of Art," which was located at 585–587 Broadway in New York City.
Estimated Era
Given that Fredricks established his famous independent Broadway studio around 1855–1856, and the popularity of cased images began to give way to paper cartes-de-visite by the early 1860s, this portrait can be confidently dated to the late 1850s. The subjects' winter attire, including their ruffled fabric bonnets and heavy cloaks with stark white collars, perfectly matches the fashion of this pre-Civil War window.
