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- GLC#
- GLC04501.101-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- March 29, circa 1840
- Author/Creator
- Humphreys, Sarah, fl. 1830-1840
- Title
- to Joseph A. Humphreys
- Place Written
- Louisville, Ky
- Pagination
- 2 p. : address ; Height: 25.5 cm, Width: 20.5 cm
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- Age of Jackson
Writing to her son, she recounts the family's experiences in the city. Her daughters have attended so many parties they are running out of clothes. She wishes for a lock of her son's hair to make a bracelet. Writes that she has been to see "Daguerre's celebrated chemical pictures [Dioramas] from Paris, (oil paintings) in which, by modifying the light upon the picture, are exhibited two entirely distinct representations on the same canvas . . . ." She identifies the images as the Monastery of Mount Surrat in Catatonia, St. Eteinne's church at Paris, and the crumbling of mount Rouffiberg [?] into the Valley Goldau. Date is not listed on the letter, likely written post 1840's; see Daguerre's biography.
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