Cased Images and Opera Images

Rather than creating a new post for the opera images I scanned last week, I edited my March 8th post to include images from these productions.

I am, however,creating a new post for the cased images we looked at on March 2nd.

Here is a scan of the photographs of Madison and Lucinda Evans. These are the photographs which have the slightly mysterious text underneath them.

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The subject of this photograph is E. Jennie Hoover. It was taken in 1855.

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The subject of this photograph is Eliza Jane Sluss Hoover. An interesting bit of trivia: because of the photographic process used to create them, daguerreotypes are usually reversed. This reversal can often be observed by looking at the hands of the subjects of the photographs. If the person is married, his or her ring will appear to be on the right rather than the left hand. We corrected for this by flipping the scan in Photoshop, so Eliza Jane Sluss Hoover's ring appears on the correct hand. You can also see that her rings have been tinted silver.