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Description:

Subject: Unknown

Subject Description: Woman in an all black with white frilled collar/cuffs and ruched sleeves

Backdrop: Simple but does contain furniture

Mount: Neutral card

Frame: Rectangular image with no decorative frame

Size: 2.5” x 4” (early CDV were cut by hand, so may be innacurate)

Photographers Font: (Printed verso) Bullock & Sons Photographers, Macclesfield

Photographer Info: Based at Buckley Terrace, Macclesfield
REF: The National Archive (2019) ’Reverse of 2458/5a. Printed on reverse: Established 1849. Bullock & Sons, Photographers, Buckley Terrace, Macclesfield. No.18074’ [Online] https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/9a6b9bbb-736e-4ed1-9d7c-482d7fc244b2

Photograph No.: 14274

Corners: Square - all but one intact

Condition: Minor imperfection on the print itself and some evidence of wear to the mounts edges

Date: All these details suggest the image is circa 1849-1852

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