[School house and school children]
Photograph
Unidentified
Maker
[School house and school children]
ca. 1850
Daguerreotype
Image: 3 3/8 × 5 in. (8.6 × 12.7 cm) (1/2 plate)
Case: 6 × 4 3/4 × 7/8 in. (15.2 × 12.1 × 2.2 cm)
Purchase
1969.0201.0050
Inscriptions Inscribed in pen on applied label on spine of case: 314
Entry 314 in Mackay's notebook (located in library): 314. Large daguerreotype of country school house with all grades, but in front of which are teachers and 51 little grammar school pupils of all sizes and ages. Little girls with braids and pantalets. Boys with long bobbed hair & quaint suits. Probably country school in forties or early fifties in Fayetteville or other nearly town of Upper N.Y. State. Some of Flint family children of Fayetteville probably in group. Picture is a little undertimed because it would be hard to make 51 children stand still long enough for a long exposure. Would be very valuable scene if it were not scratched or dusted with rough cloth. Mr. Shinn restored it as much as possible (gratis) gift of upstate N.Y, antique dealers, called “Jean’s Antique Shop” West Winfield, N.Y. His name is A. J. Elliott. (gift.)
Entry 314 in Mackay's notebook (located in library): 314. Large daguerreotype of country school house with all grades, but in front of which are teachers and 51 little grammar school pupils of all sizes and ages. Little girls with braids and pantalets. Boys with long bobbed hair & quaint suits. Probably country school in forties or early fifties in Fayetteville or other nearly town of Upper N.Y. State. Some of Flint family children of Fayetteville probably in group. Picture is a little undertimed because it would be hard to make 51 children stand still long enough for a long exposure. Would be very valuable scene if it were not scratched or dusted with rough cloth. Mr. Shinn restored it as much as possible (gratis) gift of upstate N.Y, antique dealers, called “Jean’s Antique Shop” West Winfield, N.Y. His name is A. J. Elliott. (gift.)
