Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Object Name |
Ambrotype |
Title |
Eliza McBride Lewis (tentative) |
Catalog Number |
2012.012.00024 |
Description |
Sixth-plate ambrotype with applied color; older woman, seated, facing camera, looking at camera, wearing daycap set back on head, ribbons tied under chin, grey hair parted down center, cheeks tinted pink, large whitework collar with scalloped edges, large, probably colorful, patterned neckerchief tied under collar and hanging down front of bodice with fringes, fan front bodice, dropped shoulders, large bishop sleeves, netted mitts on hands, skirt pleated into bodice, left arm bent and resting on table with hand hanging down, right arm bent at waist and forearm and hand are resting in lap; oval metal mat; preserver stamped with simple foliate motif; case is leather covered wood, emobssed on exterior sections; interior obverse case section lined in velvet; label adhered to the bottom of the cover plate reads, "Lewis's grandmother." |
Medium |
Glass/Leather/Paint/Metal//Velvet/Wood |
Studio |
Unknown |
Photographer |
Unknown |
Owner Regiment |
Not applicable |
Provenance |
A label attached to this photograph identifies the woman in the photograph as "Lewis's grandmother." Lewis Charles Tebeau's paternal grandmother was Catherine Treutlen Tebeau of Savannah, Georgia. She was born in 1775 and died in 1834. His maternal grandmother was Eliza McBride Lewis, born in Westchester, New York in 1770, death date and place unknown. Although we do not know exactly when Eliza Lewis died, we do know when Catherine Tebeau died, and it would not be possible for this ambrotype to have been made of her because the technology did not exist at the time of her death. |
People |
Lewis, Eliza McBride (tentative) |
Search Terms |
Savannah, Georgia |
Subjects |
Ambrotypes Cased photographs Domestic life Elderly persons Photographs Photography Wet plate negatives Women civilians |