Samuel M. Townsend

Samuel M. Townsend

Photograph

George Watson Hewitt

Maker
American, 1841–1917

Samuel M. Townsend

ca. 1870
Tintype with applied color
Image: 1 3/4 × 1 1/4 in. (4.5 × 3.2 cm)
Overall (Oval): 3 15/16 × 2 3/8 in. (10 × 6 cm)
Gift of the 3M Foundation, ex-collection Louis Walton Sipley, 1977
1982.1399.0057
Inscriptions Inscribed in pencil, TC: S.L. Townsend
Applied label on verso, C: [extensive printed advertising for George W. Hewitt & Co.]
Inscribed in ink on verso, BC: Album LWS -9 c 1870
Inscribed in pencil on verso, BC: Samuel M. Townsend

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