[View from Bemis' window of his lodgings in Boston, including the Provident Institution for Savings Building and King's Chapel Burial ground.]

[View from Bemis' window of his lodgings in Boston, including the Provident Institution for Savings Building and King's Chapel Burial ground.]

Photograph

Samuel A. Bemis

Maker
American, 1793–1881

[View from Bemis' window of his lodgings in Boston, including the Provident Institution for Savings Building and King's Chapel Burial ground.]

ca. 1840–1841
Daguerreotype on silver foil
Image: 3 15/16 × 3 15/16 in. (10 × 10 cm)
Mount: 4 1/8 × 4 1/8 in. (10.5 × 10.5 cm)
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company
1980.0807.0004
Inscriptions written in pencil on the upperside of the frosted glass (reads in reverse):
Touch not / Ho B+E 5 / + cc 1 [?]
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