Wenderoth, Taylor & Brown

Description

Three-quarter length portrait of the Quaker abolitionist and reformer, seated, holding a book, her elbow resting on a side table, a drape in the background.; Title from manuscript note on mount.; Date from duplicate in private collection.; Attributed to Wenderoth, Taylor & Brown from inscription in modern hand on verso.; Frederick A. Wenderoth, William Curtis Taylor, and Frederick Brown, a Philadelphia photographic firm established in 1865, operated until around 1884. Wenderoth, a technician in the studio of Samuel Broadbent starting around 1860, assumed the business of his employer, with his first partner Taylor, around 1863.

Record Contributed By

Library Company of Philadelphia

Record Harvested From

PA Digital