[Woman]
Photograph
[Woman]
ca. 1855
Daguerreotype with applied color
Image (sixth plate): 3 1/4 × 2 11/16 in. (8.3 × 6.9 cm)
Case: 3 13/16 × 3 7/16 × 1 in. (9.7 × 8.8 × 2.6 cm)
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer
1979.3108.0007
Inscriptions Stamped on mat recto, BLC: ANSON
Stamped on mat recto, BRC: 589 \ BROADWAY
Inscribed in ink on applied label on glass, BC, [label removed 8-2022]: PA=
Printed on paper inside interior of case beneath plate, C: A. P. CRITCHLOW & CO., \ Manufacturers of \ Daguerreotype Cases. \ A. P. C. & CO. \ Are the Original Inventors of the \ Composition for the Union Case, \ (so called,) including all the various shades \ of color and fineness of texture pecu- \ liar to their manufacture and of the \ Embracing Rivited Hinges, thus \ securing them from breaking out as \ do others that are inserted \ with or without a \ metal brace.
Stamped on mat recto, BRC: 589 \ BROADWAY
Inscribed in ink on applied label on glass, BC, [label removed 8-2022]: PA=
Printed on paper inside interior of case beneath plate, C: A. P. CRITCHLOW & CO., \ Manufacturers of \ Daguerreotype Cases. \ A. P. C. & CO. \ Are the Original Inventors of the \ Composition for the Union Case, \ (so called,) including all the various shades \ of color and fineness of texture pecu- \ liar to their manufacture and of the \ Embracing Rivited Hinges, thus \ securing them from breaking out as \ do others that are inserted \ with or without a \ metal brace.
