[Massachusetts Elected Officials who greeted Louis Kossuth; Anson Burlingame, Nathaniel Prentiss Banks, Henry Wilson, Erastus Hopkins, and George Sewell Boutwell]
Photograph
Southworth & Hawes
Maker
Albert Sands Southworth, American, 1811–1894; Josiah Johnson Hawes, American, 1808–1901
[Massachusetts Elected Officials who greeted Louis Kossuth; Anson Burlingame, Nathaniel Prentiss Banks, Henry Wilson, Erastus Hopkins, and George Sewell Boutwell]
The Massachusetts Reception Committee; The Free Soilers; Coalition Group
1852
Daguerreotype
Image (whole plate): 8 9/16 × 6 1/4 in. (21.7 × 15.9 cm)
Purchase
Inscriptions Hallmark on recto, TRC: [star] DOUBLE \ J P 40 [see The Daguerreotypes of Southworth & Hawes (Sobieszek and Appel, 1980) #9, p. 113]
Inscribed on verso, TR: Group is the welcoming committee for Louis Kossuth, \ Hungarian patriot.
Inscribed on verso, C: Daguerreotype by \ Southworth + Hawes \ Boston \ George S. Boutwell, 1818- \ 1905 \ Seated lower right \ Gov. of Mass., statesman, \ writer, lawyer, prominent \ republican, Sec. of Treasury \ under U.S. Grant, \ U.S. Senator, \ head of Harvard College,
Inscribed in pen on applied label on verso of case: 678
Entry 678 in Mackay's notebook (located in library): Handsome whole-plate daguerreotype of 5 prominent men (4 unidentified so far) taken by Southworth & Hawes, famous Boston Daguerrean photographs of 1840. Man seated at right is Gov. George Sewell Boutwell of mass. (See dag. #657). Bought from Ray Phillips Collection Jan. 1948. Cost 6.25. Placed in English dag. case. Obtained from Mrs. Labhard, $7.65 (14.00)
Inscribed on verso, TR: Group is the welcoming committee for Louis Kossuth, \ Hungarian patriot.
Inscribed on verso, C: Daguerreotype by \ Southworth + Hawes \ Boston \ George S. Boutwell, 1818- \ 1905 \ Seated lower right \ Gov. of Mass., statesman, \ writer, lawyer, prominent \ republican, Sec. of Treasury \ under U.S. Grant, \ U.S. Senator, \ head of Harvard College,
Inscribed in pen on applied label on verso of case: 678
Entry 678 in Mackay's notebook (located in library): Handsome whole-plate daguerreotype of 5 prominent men (4 unidentified so far) taken by Southworth & Hawes, famous Boston Daguerrean photographs of 1840. Man seated at right is Gov. George Sewell Boutwell of mass. (See dag. #657). Bought from Ray Phillips Collection Jan. 1948. Cost 6.25. Placed in English dag. case. Obtained from Mrs. Labhard, $7.65 (14.00)
