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Silhouette Cutting at Old Salem

Silhouette Cutting at Old Salem

Two unidentified children make a silhouette using a physiognotrace, a 19th-century device used to transfer the profile of a sitter’s face to paper for making a silhouette portrait.

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Image Details

created
c. 1970-1980
creator
Griffin, Frances
description
Two unidentified children make a silhouette using a physiognotrace, a 19th-century device used to transfer the profile of a sitter's face to paper for making a silhouette portrait.
hasFormat
Photoprint
hasVersion
FG-347
identifier
https://www.digitalforsyth.org/jpg/ols/df15/ols_df15_01167.jpg, https://www.digitalforsyth.org/jpg/ols/df15/ols_df15_01167-th.jpg, https://hdl.handle.net/10339/16494
isPartOf
DF 15
isReferencedBy
ols_df15_01167
issued
c. 1970-1980
publisher
Old Salem Museums and Gardens holds the rights to this image
rights
Old Salem Museums and Gardens holds rights to this photograph
rightsHolder
Old Salem Museums and Gardens
subject
Forsyth County (N.C.) -- History -- Pictorial works, Forsyth County (N.C.) -- History -- Sources, Digital Forsyth
title
Silhouette Cutting at Old Salem
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