[Woman holding opened letter]
Photograph
Southworth & Hawes
Maker
Albert Sands Southworth, American, 1811–1894; Josiah Johnson Hawes, American, 1808–1901
[Woman holding opened letter]
ca. 1850
Daguerreotype
Image (half plate): 5 1/2 × 4 1/4 in. (14 × 10.8 cm)
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer
1974.0193.0959
Inscriptions Hallmark on recto, TRC: SCOVILL MFG' CO \ EXTRA [see The Daguerreotypes of Southworth & Hawes (Sobieszek and Appel, 1980) #2, p. 112]
Inscribed in pencil on conservation housing verso, BC: word "Boston" inscribed twice \ on plate back
Inscribed in pencil on conservation housing verso, BC: word "Boston" inscribed twice \ on plate back
