Antique CDV Wheeler Young Woman High Collar Pittsfield Mass

Antique CDV Wheeler Young Woman High Collar Pittsfield Mass

This antique CDV features a poised young woman captured in a classic studio portrait. She is dressed in the modest, structured fashion of the era, highlighted by a distinctive high collar that frames her face with Victorian elegance. The backmark identifies the photographer as Wheeler, based out of Pittsfield, Mass.

The crisp clarity of this portrait offers a window into the aesthetic standards of late 19th-century New England society. It is an essential acquisition for collectors of Massachusetts photography or those documenting regional studio portraiture.

A rare visual record of a young woman from Pittsfield, Mass.