Quarter plate daguerreotype. (Tarnishing to perimeter, some spotting.) Housed in full pressed paper case with floral motif (hinge split, wear to extremities). 

The young subject wears a checked dress with a white collar and sleeve details. Her hair is partially tied back with a ribbon. 

[With:] A group of 20 CDV portraits identified to Woodstock Plantation near Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Several images of the same subjects. Photographer imprints include: Edinburgh, Scotland: J. Moffat (3); Mobile, AL: H.A. Olwell (2); New Orleans: Anderson's Photographic Gallery, Anderson & Turner, B. Moses, B. & G. Moses, S. Anderson's Imperial Photograph Studio, W.W. Washburn (5); New York: J. Burney & Son; Raleigh, NC: Andrews' Gallery Operated by S.L. Alderman, Watson's Gallery of Photographic Art; St. Louis: J.A. Scholten. 

[Also with:] Melrose Abbey, from the South-West. Aberdeen, Scotland: G.W. Wilson, n.d. CDV on cardstock mount.