The Daguerotype Dress
Class #3
Hitty Petal, modeling our version of the
Daguerotype dress.
 Hitty Petal |
 The Real Hitty |
Hitty Petal enjoys pretending to be the Original
Daguerotype.
The Real Hitty in her Daguerotype, found at the Stockbridge Library
Museum, Stockbridge, MA.
"Hitty's pictures are all done now and I was quite as happy doing them
as if I were sitting on the floor again playing with dolls. Even after
the pictures were all turned in, I've gone on playing, for Hitty has a
new dress now, of which she was in great need, for in the stress of
posing, her original brown sprigged calico -- the one in which her
daguerreotype was taken -- was splitting in several new places, and to
have her go into camphor solely to preserve her dress would be needless
cruelty." -----excerpt from the The Three Owls article
titled "Hitty's Odyssey" by Josiah Titzell, November 3, 1929. The
reference to the dress according to the article is a quote from Dorothy
in a personal letter to The Owls. The Three Owls was an article printed
in the New York Herald Tribune.
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Class Fee: $15.00 (No kits available for this
class--sorry.) Register by clicking here. Once you have registered, you will be given information on how to pay for your class. I accept PayPal, Money Orders, and Checks. Registration accepted any time. Once you have paid, you will be sent a supply list so you can have your supplies on hand ahead of time. The Online Location of the Class will be sent out on the day the class begins. Class begins Saturday, March 1st. . Remember--because this is an online class, you can start anytime after you receive the URL for the class pages, and it doesn't have to be that Saturday. You can work in your jammies if you want--no need to dress up for us! If you get bogged down or something isn't clear, you will be able to ask for help by clicking the link either here or on the class page.
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