Daguerreotype, in a case, studio portrait of a man

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Description

Title: Daguerreotype, in a case, studio portrait of a man
Creator: From the Collection: Fisher, Robert B., 1919-2004
Contributor: From the Collection: Anthony, Edward
From the Collection: Babbitt, Platt D., -1879
From the Collection: Bierstadt Brothers
From the Collection: Keystone View Company
From the Collection: Langenheim Brothers
From the Collection: London Stereoscopic Company
From the Collection: New York Stereoscopic Company
From the Collection: Underwood & Underwood
Published / Created: circa 1842
Description: Sixth-plate daguerreotype Case has a green silk pad with a geometric pattern Brass mat with an acorn motif Pencil inscriptions on tape of image package: "Very early heavy Scovill plate & cut down on right side. 3 corners clipped & sides are flat. 3 initials are written [in the] copper & 'esq'; c. 1842. Retaped 9/8/96 by D.A.W. in Exeter, N. H." Conservation work completed by Dennis A. Waters of Exeter, New Hampshire, September 8, 1996
Provenance: Gift of Peter E. Palmquist, 2003., The Robert B. Fisher Photograph Collection and Papers were acquired by Peter E. Palmquist from Fisher, probably in 2002.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Repository

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Call Number

WA MSS S-2823

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Container / Volume

Box 1, folder 11

Access: Public
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Citation: Robert B. Fisher Photograph Collection and Papers. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.