[Woman]
Photograph

Southworth & Hawes

Maker
Albert Sands Southworth, American, 1811–1894; Josiah Johnson Hawes, American, 1808–1901

[Woman]

ca. 1850
Daguerreotype
Image (whole plate): 8 1/2 × 6 7/16 in. (21.6 × 16.4 cm)
Frame (housing): 10 1/16 × 7 3/4 in. (25.6 × 19.7 cm)
Purchase
1974.0193.0632
Inscriptions Hallmark on recto, TLC: [star]
Hallmark on recto, TRC: 40 [see The Daguerreotypes of Southworth & Hawes (Sobieszek and Appel, 1980) #12, p. 113]
Inscribed on verso, TC: Daguerreotype by \ Southworth & Hawes \ Boston, Mass. \ #789
Entry 789 in Mackay's notebook (located in library): Four lovely large plates, bound & matted, subjects not identified. Mostly of prominent people. Eight in original large 7x9 size plate slide-box. All lovely. Five 7x9 tintypes added (Not by Southworth & Hawes.
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