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Unidentified Group of Three Young Women by George Eastman House.

Accession Number: 1974:0193:0502

Maker: Southworth & Hawes (American Active ca. 1845-1861)

Title: Unidentified Group of Three Young Women

Date: ca. 1856

Medium: daguerreotype

Dimensions: whole plate; 16.5 x 21.6 cm.

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gavino•vz says:

I wonder who these people are.
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

Alexander Tundakov says:

Love this photo!!!
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

AnaFagarazzi says:

Love it.
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

kabetoman says:

exelente foto de casualidad es un dagerrotipo y que buena colecccion de fotos
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

KellyRebaShaniaCeline [deleted] says:

wow that looks alot like my great great great great aunts kids!!!!!!
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

George Eastman House says:

Well, if your great great great great aunts kids were in Boston around the time the photo was taken, it may be them!
Posted 16 months ago. ( permalink )

artsayfartsey says:

So sweet

Charlene Painter
Posted 16 months ago. ( permalink )

dondi rivera tawatao says:

i love the look on their faces. kind of reminds me of the smiths song, cemetry gates
Posted 16 months ago. ( permalink )

MeaCulpa2008 says:

Very nice. I love the empty, eerie looks on their faces.
Posted 16 months ago. ( permalink )

huntershelby says:

Great photo ! Did people even smile back in 1856?
Posted 16 months ago. ( permalink )

rosnani_lazim says:

great photo...so amazing...
Posted 16 months ago. ( permalink )

Pipe  says:

Wonderful...
Posted 16 months ago. ( permalink )

canardo says:

It's pretty obvious who's running that show, and it's not the older ones.
Posted 16 months ago. ( permalink )

Erotocrat says:

It's pretty interesting to note that those women dress better than women do today.
Posted 16 months ago. ( permalink )

JackzPIMP says:

Great photo
Posted 16 months ago. ( permalink )

voldеmort says:

these photos creep me out, but in a totally good way. lovely!
Posted 16 months ago. ( permalink )

pseudonymfreak [deleted] says:

i love this :D
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

br@mbly says:

I like these really old photos, before the people got the hang of grinning inanely at the camera. Littlest seems to have caught on that you at least look at it.

What I can see here is 3 girls aged somewhere between 10 and 15. They are so thin it would be almost a cause for concern these days, though I can remember children that slender from my youth. I don't see many these days though. I also see hair that has not been washed in a week or so. All three have hair slicked down with grease. I'm not sure what the eldest has done to hers. I suppose it's curled under, or back in a bun. Not a good look at all!

Their dresses are lovely, probably hand sewn, all from the same basic pattern. I'm not sure if the sleeves would have let down as they grew older or maybe they came out for summer wear. Littlest has pin tucks, fairly large ones, down the front of her bodice and Middly has a great fold of fabric across her chest, presumably for the same reason.
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

jlrock says:

"Great photo ! Did people even smile back in 1856? "

To take a photo back then people had to stand still for long periods of time, smiling got tiring. It's not like today where shutter speed is fractions of a second. They had to use longer exposures.
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

grlanachronism says:

i bet they never even imagined a world with computers and internet! and not even appearing on the internet!

lovely
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

shades_ofmy_heart says:

I see the mother figure and youngest girl as looking a little arrogant as the oldest girl looks a bit downtrodden.
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

Cengiz.uskuplu says:

Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

☆HanaToYume☆ says:

Great photo!
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

casey6941 says:

I think the one in the dark dress is the mother. For one thing, adults tended to dress more soberly. The 2 girls definitely look like sisters. I think the book the mother is holding is a Bible.
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

Lulot Ruiz says:

great! thanks for uploading!
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

JudyA says:

Great photo. BTW, for those of you who wonder about the lack of smiles, in those days exposure time was very, very long. People had to sit very still and could not hold a natural looking smile for the time required for the exposure. Thus, the serious expressions.
Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink )

Lulot Ruiz says:

ah...thanks a lot for an added knowledge.
Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink )

Romina De Rossi says:

Sembrano "piccole donne"..ne mancherebbe una!!!Bellissima..
Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink )

emmisonsi says:

cool picture, i love it
Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink )

Vadrian Seven says:

This picture is the cover of a cd I own
by some industrial/electro group.
I believe the girl on the far left
is cropped/edited out though.
Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink )

George Eastman House says:

We'd love to know more about the CD, can you share any more information about it?
Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink )

dear.death says:

guau it´s sooo cool **
Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink )

banjoray555 says:

This photo is dramatic but mellow, with subjects projecting their own expresions. I love sepia, and black and white, particularly from aged photos. Nice job !!!
Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink )

mang_kiko : ) says:

i call will call them....treasure, great!
Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink )

Fazda says:

And if anyone had ever told these ladies that one day in the future, thousands of people would be looking at them via the stars, they would have called that person crazy!
Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink )

Vadrian Seven says:

The group is called Scorn.
This image is the cover for their cd Evanescence.
The inside sleeve
gives the name of the woman who did the cover
but I'm sure they don't mean she took this picture at all.
The inside also has another old hand-tinted photo.
There is no production/copyright date inside
but I've had the cd I'd say at least ten years or more.
Silver Rain Fell, Automata, and The End
are the best songs on the disc.
Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink )

banjoray555 says:

I love this picture...those sepia-greyish are lovely !!! Nostalgic photo,like saying "the way they were"...
Posted 12 months ago. ( permalink )

姬慶 says:

Greate!! ^- ^
Posted 12 months ago. ( permalink )

~Kelly Harlen~ says:

saludiito n.n
Posted 12 months ago. ( permalink )

you'llsee says:

I love this photo.
I like this people!
Posted 12 months ago. ( permalink )

cltan47 [deleted] says:

best shot
Posted 12 months ago. ( permalink )

blip3 says:

Don't you see... that's Uma Thurman on the right! (;
Posted 12 months ago. ( permalink )

dear.death says:

oh my god! it´s true she is uma thruman : D
Posted 11 months ago. ( permalink )

Leyla Kravtsova says:

Great photo!
Posted 10 months ago. ( permalink )

숲속의환희 says:

좋아요
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

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