Figure 14: Earrings
Maker: W. F. Padelford, Pawtucket, Rhode Island, dates unknown
Sitter/Subject: unknown
Genre: studio portrait
Process: ambrotype
Dimensions: ninth plate
Date: circa 1860; copy of a sixth plate daguerreotype, circa 1847
Collection: Gregory Fried
Notes: the sitter has an earring in each ear; the use of earrings was associated with sailors, who would earn an earring for crossing the equator.