William Read and Samuel O. Mead Tombs, Mount Auburn Cemetery
Photograph
Southworth & Hawes
Maker
Albert Sands Southworth, American, 1811–1894; Josiah Johnson Hawes, American, 1808–1901
William Read and Samuel O. Mead Tombs, Mount Auburn Cemetery
ca. 1853
Daguerreotype
Image (whole plate): 6 1/2 × 8 7/16 in. (16.5 × 21.5 cm)
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer
Inscriptions Hallmark on recto, BLC: [star] DOUBLE \ J P 40 [see The Daguerreotypes of Southworth & Hawes (Sobieszek and Appel, 1980) #9, p. 113]
Inscribed in ink and pencil on previous mount verso: 80 [circled, checkmark] \ 1/2 \ 3/4 sec \ ü \ s.6
Inscribed in ink and pencil on previous mount verso: 80 [circled, checkmark] \ 1/2 \ 3/4 sec \ ü \ s.6
