Helen Covell Wolcott

Unknown American, American

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about 1854

Ambrotype

Overall: 2 5/8 × 2 1/16 in. (6.6 × 5.3 cm)

Overall: 3 11/16 × 3 1/4 × 3/4 in. (9.3 × 8.2 × 1.9 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Margaret E. Spicer

PH.2002.63.22

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

19th century

Object Name

Photograph

Research Area

Photograph

Not on view

Inscriptions

Inscribed, in ink, on label affixed to exterior of box: Aunt Helen Wolcott / [illegible]. George Buck / [arrow running vertically up to point to "Aunt"] b. 1820's (?) - d. 1857; inscribed, in ink, on paper tucked into box: Aunt Helen Wolcott / M- Geo Buck- [inscription in script]

Course History

ARTH 48.02, History of Photography, Katie Hornstein, Winter 2020

Art History 48.02, Histories of Photography, Katie Hornstein, Spring 2024

Provenance

Helen Covell Wolcott Buck, Elizabeth Sarah Wolcott Petitcler, and John Covell Wolcott (siblings), Cheshire, Massachusetts; to Elizabeth Sarah Petitcler Foster (Elizabeth Petitcler's daughter), Cheshire, Massachusetts; bequeathed to Helen Rena Foster Gearhart (daughter), Palmerton, Pennsylvania, 1942; bequeathed to Elizabeth Gearhart Spicer (daughter), Palmerton, Pennsylvania,1976; bequeathed to Margaret Elizabeth Spicer (daughter), Norwich, Vermont, 1996; given to present collection, 2002.

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