[Man / man (double case)]
Photograph
Unidentified
Maker
[Man / man (double case)]
ca. 1857
Daguerreotypes, left image with applied color
Image (a, left; sixth plate): 3 1/4 × 2 3/4 in. (8.3 × 7 cm)
Image (b, right; sixth plate): 3 1/4 × 2 3/4 in. (8.2 × 7 cm)
Case: 3 3/4 × 3 5/16 × 1 1/16 in. (9.6 × 8.4 × 2.7 cm)
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer, 1951
1979.3237.0001a-b
Inscriptions Inscribed in ink on applied label on right image, BLC [label removed 8-2022]: S22
Inscribed in ink on applied label on outer case verso, TL: 92
[nothing behind plate a]
Printed on paper behind plate b, C: Littlefield, Parsons & Co., \ MANUFACTURERS OF \ Daguerreotype Cases. \ L., P. & Co., are the sole \ Proprietors and only legal Manu- \ factures of UNION CASES, with the \ Embracing Riveted Hinge. \ Patented October 14, 1856, \ and April 21, 1857.
Inscribed in ink on applied label on outer case verso, TL: 92
[nothing behind plate a]
Printed on paper behind plate b, C: Littlefield, Parsons & Co., \ MANUFACTURERS OF \ Daguerreotype Cases. \ L., P. & Co., are the sole \ Proprietors and only legal Manu- \ factures of UNION CASES, with the \ Embracing Riveted Hinge. \ Patented October 14, 1856, \ and April 21, 1857.
