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[Maria Boyd holding a weaving shuttle, half-length portrait, facing front]
Summary
Maria Boyd is listed as a 29 year-old weaver in the 1860 Federal Census, in Warwick, Rhode Island.
Case: circle and leaf motif; paper label inside case: Maria Boyd.
Purchase; 2006; (DLC/PP-2006:014).
Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).
Exhibited: "The Sweat of Their Face : Portraying American Workers" at the Smithsonian Institution National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C., Nov. 2017 - Sept. 2018.
The daguerreotype is a photographic process invented by the Parisian inventor and entrepreneur Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre (1787-1851) who was the first person to publicly announce a successful method of capturing images. His invention was an immediate hit, and France was soon gripped by ‘daguerreotypomania’. Daguerre released his formula and anyone was free to use it without paying a license fee – except in Britain, where he had secured a patent. Daguerreotypes required a subject to remain still for several minutes to ensure that the image would not blur.