[Man]
Photograph

Marcus Aurelius Root

Maker
American, 1808–1888

[Man]

ca. 1848
Daguerreotype
Image (oval): 3 1/2 × 2 5/8 in. (8.9 × 6.7 cm)
Overall (1/4 plate): 4 3/4 × 3 3/4 × 11/16 in. (12 × 9.5 × 1.7 cm)
Paper (Cromer's note): 2 × 1 5/16 in. (5.1 × 3.3 cm)
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company, ex-collection Gabriel Cromer
1979.3141.0001
Inscriptions Stamped on brass mat, recto, BLC / BRC: M.A. ROOT / PHILAD-
Inscribed in pencil, binding paper, verso, BR: 10D-209
Component (found in EHC index card):
Incribed in pencil (Cromer's hand) on note paper(see component) , C: plaque argentée \ [illegible] \ [illegible] \ "doublé A Gaud[?]"
Inscribed in pencil, note paper, B: BN [initials ?] Root - Phila.
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