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Daguerreotype, "Pwan Ye-Koo," profile
Object Number 35-5-10/53057
Display Title Daguerreotype, "Pwan Ye-Koo," profile
Descriptions
Object Description Mounted daguerrotype of Chinese woman in profile with elaborate hair-do and earrings in Chinese dress. Photographed to waist. Photographer identified on metal mat as Chase. Picture, Chinese woman
Subject
  • Woman
  • Portrait
Department Photographic
Date 1850
Artist Lorenzo G. Chase
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Massachusetts / Suffolk County / Boston
Materials Daguerreotype
Provenance
Collector Prof. Louis Agassiz (1850)
Donor Alexander Agassiz

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