Woman in Green Dress
date: label: Date made
content: 1908
label: Date made
content: 1908-01
name: label: maker
content: Towles, William H.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Autochrome portrait of woman seated on a couch, in a green dress with feathered hat.
label: Description
content: William H. Towles, active from 1890 into the 1930s, is said to have made Washington, D.C.'s first autochrome. Autochromes are among the first commercially successful forms of color photography. The color dyes in the photographs are held by potato starch.
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: District of Columbia, Washington
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content: Work and Industry: Photographic History
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content: Photography
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content: Autochrome Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PG.003900
label: accession number
content: 107614
label: catalog number
content: 3900
objectType: label: Object Name
content: autochrome
label: Object Name
content: Autochrome
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 1/2 in x 6 1/2 in x 1/2 in; 21.59 cm x 16.51 cm x 1.27 cm