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Daguerreotype portrait of Cecilia E. and Fanny E. Levy. The two are seated, wearing matching plaid dresses. Cecilia Eliza Levy (1830-1916) and Fanny Emma Levy (1831-1895) were the daughters of David Cordoza Levy of Charleston, South Carolina and Philadelphia. In 1850, Cecilia married Israel Cohen (1820-1873) of Baltimore. They were parents to: Benjamin I. (1852-1915);…

Daguerreotype portrait of Cecilia E. and Fanny E. Levy. The two are seated, wearing matching plaid dresses. Cecilia Eliza Levy (1830-1916) and Fanny Emma Levy (1831-1895) were the daughters of David Cordoza Levy of Charleston, South Carolina and Philadelphia. In 1850, Cecilia married Israel Cohen (1820-1873) of Baltimore. They were parents to: Benjamin I. (1852-1915);…

Portrait of Cecilia Eliza and Fanny Emma Levy

Description

Daguerreotype portrait of Cecilia E. and Fanny E. Levy. The two are seated, wearing matching plaid dresses.

Cecilia Eliza Levy (1830-1916) and Fanny Emma Levy (1831-1895) were the daughters of David Cordoza Levy of Charleston, South Carolina and Philadelphia. In 1850, Cecilia married Israel Cohen (1820-1873) of Baltimore. They were parents to: Benjamin I. (1852-1915); Maria (1853-); Kitty (1854-); Georgie (1853-1871); Eleanor Septima (1858-1937); Joshua I. (1860-1885); and Anna Maria (1863-1891).

In 1854, Fanny married Columbus Moise (1809-1872) of Charlottsville, Virginia. They were parents to: Columbus (1855-1895), married Sophia Dunlap; Lionel (1856-1903), married Laura Crompton; Anna Maria (1855-1917), married Joseph Hymen; Walter (1860-1916); Algernon Sydney (1862-1925), married Mary Helen Williams; and Frances Emma (1869-1948), married Edwin Warren de Leon.

Creator

Date

1846

Language(s)

Collection Number

CSPH

Dimensions

2.5 x 3.5 inches

Object ID

CSPH 081

Extent

1 cased photograph

Resource ID

4181

Digital Publisher

Digital resource provided by the Maryland Center for History and Culture

Rights

This digital image is made available here for private study, scholarship, and research. Commercial and other uses are prohibited without the permission of the Maryland Center for History and Culture. For more information, visit the MCHC’s Reproductions and Permissions web page.