Ambrotype: perhaps Preble's second wife, Jane Matilda Hadlock Sanford Preble

1000.140.1843

Ambrotype: perhaps Preble's second wife, Jane Matilda Hadlock Sanford Preble

Photo. Ambrotype in folding wood frame with metal hasp; dark red velvet lining with impressed scroll pattern; brass mat with oval window, showing a young woman, perhaps William Pitt Preble's second wife, Jane Matilda Hadlock Sanford Preble. She was the mother of Samuel Sanford, daughter of Capt. Samuel Hadlock, Jr. and Hanna Caroline Dorothea Russ (1803-1889) a.k.a. "the Prussian Woman." From the Louise Marr collection of items recovered from the Preble House. (Photo ca. 1855-1860) See also 1000.0.1066G photo. She wears unusual fingerless gloves.

Glass

case (opened) 4.75" W x 2.75" L x 0.5" H; photo 2" W x 2.5" L