Carte-de-visite portrait of Mrs. Bowen

Henry Ulke, German American, 1821 - 1910

Carte-de-visite of Mary Barker Bowen shown in bust portrait. Her body faces the camera, but her head is turned a quarter to her left and she looks off camera. Her hair is parted at the center and pulled into a chignon at the nape of her neck. She wears a dark bodice with a white collar and an oval brooch at her front neck. The bottom portion of the image is purposefully faded in the popular style of the time.

Date: 1866
Type: cartes-de-visite
Medium: albumen and silver on photographic paper on card mount
Department: NMAAHC
Institution: National Museum of African American History and Culture
Object number: nmaahc_2017.30.9
Credit: Collection of the National Museum of African American History and Culture shared with the Library of Congress

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Carte-de-visite portrait of Mrs. Bowen

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