Collection Highlights
Untitled (Skating in Central Park, N.Y.)
Date:
ca. 1890
Object Number:
PR.020.50.2
Medium:
Photograph
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Headrest
Object Number:
1954.232ab
Date:
ca. 1848
Medium:
Iron, wood, paint
Dimensions:
Overall (a): 15 1/4 in. × 7 1/4 in. × 2 in. (38.7 × 18.4 × 5.1 cm)
Overall (b): 19 in. × 2 1/2 in. (48.3 × 6.4 cm
Description:
Headrest used for daguerreotype portraiture, in two pieces; straight wood dowel with adjustable iron clamp at lower end and iron socket at opposite end (a); adjustable iron horns in the form of a semicircle attached to one end of a second wood dowel (b), which fits into iron socket.
Gallery Label:
Headrests such as this one were used to help the sitter for a daguerreotype portrait remain still for the length of the exposure, which would take about twenty seconds.
Credit Line:
Purchase, Abbott Fund
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
