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John Carl Frederick Polycarpus Von Schneidau (Daguerreotype in America by Beaumont Newhall. New York: Dover, 1976, p. 59, and in America of the Fifties: Letters of Fredrika Bremer. New York: American-Scandinavian Foundation, 1924, p. 210) or Luther Boswell (The Chrysler Museum acquired a daguerreotype of Jenny Lind along with a note from Mrs. Luther Boswell that described Lind coming to Brady's studio where operator Luther Boswell made the exposure.)
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Jenny Lind, three-quarter length portrait of a woman, three-quarters to the left, facing front, seated
Date 1850 (LoC); September 14 1850 (http://chnm.gmu.edu/lostmuseum/lm/164/)
Source Original unretouched daguerrotype DAG 509X is in the Library of Congress. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c10191
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Jenny Lind "The Swedish Nightingale".
A Daguerreotype of Jenny Lind in New York, September 14 1850 as based on 2006 digital image editing of original. The original Daguerreotype was taken by her Swedish classmate, Poly Von Schneidau from Chicago, at the Mathew Brady Studio in New York City.

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This is a retouched picture, which means that it has been digitally altered from its original version. Modifications: Removed a lot of dust + scratches, altered curves a little to make it darker / more contrasty..

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