Benjamin Seaver
Photograph
Southworth & Hawes
Maker
Albert Sands Southworth, American, 1811–1894; Josiah Johnson Hawes, American, 1808–1901
Benjamin Seaver
ca. 1850
Daguerreotype
Image (whole plate): 8 1/2 × 6 1/2 in. (21.6 × 16.5 cm)
Frame (housing): 10 1/16 × 7 3/4 in. (25.6 × 19.7 cm)
Purchase
1974.0193.0631
Inscriptions Hallmark on recto, BRC: S & F [see The Daguerreotypes of Southworth & Hawes (Sobieszek and Appel, 1980) #4, p. 112]
Inscribed on verso, TC: Daguerreotype by \ Southworth & Hawes \ Boston \ #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.
Inscribed on verso, TC: Daguerreotype by \ Southworth & Hawes \ Boston \ #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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