[Philadelphia, 3rd and Chestnut Street]

[Philadelphia, 3rd and Chestnut Street]

Photograph

George Read

Maker
American, active 1842–1843

[Philadelphia, 3rd and Chestnut Street]

July 1842
Daguerreotype
Image: 3 1/2 × 2 7/8 in. (8.9 × 7.3 cm)
Matted: 6 1/8 × 5 1/4 in. (15.6 × 13.3 cm)
Frame: 8 1/2 × 7 1/2 in. (21.6 × 19.1 cm)
Purchase, 1968
1969.0200.0041
Inscriptions Inscribed in ink on verso, C: Daguerreotype by \ George Read, Phila. \ July- 1842
Inscribed in ink on applied label on verso of daguerreotype, TRC: 20 \ C2953 \ Mrs. Ralph Mack[ay] \ 2083- 16th Ave
Inscribed in ink on applied label on verso of daguerreotype, BC: Daguerreotype of \ PHiLadeLphia in 1842 \ Taken by George Read \ at 3rd and Chestnut Sts.
Inscribed in pen on applied label on verso of frame: 245

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