Admiral Dot

Admiral Dot

Photograph

Attributed to Mathew B. Brady

Maker
American, ca. 1823–1896

E. & H.T. Anthony & Co.

American, 1862–1901

Admiral Dot

ca. 1870
Albumen silver print
Image: 3 3/8 × 2 3/16 in. (8.6 × 5.5 cm)
Mount: 4 3/16 × 2 1/2 in. (10.7 × 6.3 cm)
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer, 1951
Inscriptions Printed on mount on recto, BC: With P. T. Barnum's Traveling World's Fair. \ ADMIRAL DOT, \ Sixteen years old; Twenty-five inches high. \ Weighs only Nineteen pounds.
Inscribed in pencil on verso, TLC: Lot 2
Inscribed in pencil on verso, RC: ABCDEFGH \ [child's scribbles]
Printed on verso, C: Published by \ E. & H.T. ANTHONY & Co. \ 591 Broadway, New York. \ MANUFACTURERS \ of the best \ PHOTOGRAPHIC ALBUMS.
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