[African American man]
Photograph
Unidentified
Maker
[African American man]
ca. 1855
Daguerreotype with applied color
Image: 2 3/4 × 2 1/4 in. (7 × 5.7 cm) (1/6 plate)
Case: 3 5/8 × 3 1/8 × 11/16 in. (9.2 × 7.9 × 1.7 cm)
Purchase
1969.0201.0010
Inscriptions Inscribed in pen on applied label on spine of case: 282
Entry 282 in Mackay's notebook (located in library): Daguerreotype of young negro slave man. Quite well dressed. Gilded jewelry, has corn cob pipe in hand. Slaves of very kind & generous masters were occasionally photographed. Attained from slave’s descendant, a S.F. negro. (.75)
Entry 282 in Mackay's notebook (located in library): Daguerreotype of young negro slave man. Quite well dressed. Gilded jewelry, has corn cob pipe in hand. Slaves of very kind & generous masters were occasionally photographed. Attained from slave’s descendant, a S.F. negro. (.75)
