[Portrait of young sailor, James S. McKenzie, posing near a column, with a nautical scene on backdrop.]

[Portrait of young sailor, James S. McKenzie, posing near a column, with a nautical scene on backdrop.]

Photograph

Charles Henry Williamson

Maker
American, b. Scotland, 1826–1874

[Portrait of young sailor, James S. McKenzie, posing near a column, with a nautical scene on backdrop.]

ca. 1856
Daguerreotype
10.7 x 8.2 cm., quarter plate
Purchase
1970.0081.0001
Inscriptions mat-recto (embossed) "H. Williamson Brooklyn"
inside case (handwritten in pencil) "To A. From James S. McKenzie
To his mother and sister. April 9, 1856. a very good boy...(?) L--."
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