[Tisdale and Hewins burial lots, Mount Auburn Cemetery]

[Tisdale and Hewins burial lots, Mount Auburn Cemetery]

Photograph

Southworth & Hawes

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

[Tisdale and Hewins burial lots, Mount Auburn Cemetery]

ca. 1850
Daguerreotype
Image (whole plate): 8 1/2 × 6 7/16 in. (21.6 × 16.4 cm)
Purchase
Inscriptions Hallmark on recto, BLC: [star] DOUBLE \ J P 40 [see The Daguerreotypes of Southworth & Hawes (Sobieszek and Appel, 1980) #9, p. 113]
Inscribed in pencil on verso, C: [illegible] Mount Auburn Cemetery \ Cambridge Mass., \ Daguerreotype by \ Southworth & Hawes \ Boston
Entry 546 in Mackay's notebook (located in library): Large 7x9 daguerreotype by early Boston daguerreotypists, Southworth & Hawes. Shows scene in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass. Very fine & clear. Cost $2.50 for plate. Large black leather case gift of Britts. Complete worth $25.00.
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