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Connecticut Museum of Culture and History collection, 2025.1.5, Connecticut Museum of Culture a…
Sarah Symonds Bull
Connecticut Museum of Culture and History collection, 2025.1.5, Connecticut Museum of Culture and History, No known copyright

Sarah Symonds Bull

Dateabout 1865
MediumDaguerreotype; silver-coated copper plate in brass window mat package in tooled leather-covered wooden case. Embossed red velvet pad in left side of open case.
DimensionsPlate (height x width): 2 1/2 × 2in. (6.4 × 5.1cm)
Other (height x width x depth): 3 × 2 1/2 × 1/2in. (7.6 × 6.4 × 1.3cm)
ClassificationsGraphics
Credit LineConnecticut Museum of Culture and History collection
DescriptionNinth plate daguerreotype of Sarah Symonds Bull by an unknown photographer. Bull is pictured in old age. She is wearing a dress with soft vertical pleats in the bodice that are gathered at her waist. Her collar is white. She is wearing a shawl over her dress, lace gloves, and a daycap that sits back on her head, exposing the two fat curls that frame her face.
Object number2025.1.5
InscribedHandwritten on slip of paper in case, recto: "Sarah Symonds Bull, / Wife of Moses Butler Bull, / Daughter of Ashna Symonds 1757 / Ancestor William Spencer 1615, +"

Verso: "Joseph Symonds + / Abigail Spencer 1708."
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