[Two men eating watermelon]
Photograph
Unidentified
Maker
[Two men eating watermelon]
[Two Men Eating Watermelon]
ca. 1855
Daguerreotype with applied color
Image: 2 1/16 × 1 1/2 in. (5.2 × 3.8 cm) (1/9 plate)
Case: 3 × 2 5/8 × 7/8 in. (7.6 × 6.7 × 2.2 cm)
Purchase
1969.0202.0007
Inscriptions Inscribed in pen on applied label on spine of case: 599
Entry 599 in Mackay's notebook (located in library): 1/9- small sized hard rubber conventional case from Emerson. Slight crack mended, cost 50 cents & posted. Contains cute Daguerre. of two young men, one in cap, other wearing very tall silk hat. Seated at table eating 4 pieces of nice tinted red watermelon. Quite unusual dag. Gift of Mrs. Janet Finch East Rockaway, N.Y. Total 65 cents. Worth 2.00 or 2.50
Entry 599 in Mackay's notebook (located in library): 1/9- small sized hard rubber conventional case from Emerson. Slight crack mended, cost 50 cents & posted. Contains cute Daguerre. of two young men, one in cap, other wearing very tall silk hat. Seated at table eating 4 pieces of nice tinted red watermelon. Quite unusual dag. Gift of Mrs. Janet Finch East Rockaway, N.Y. Total 65 cents. Worth 2.00 or 2.50
