[Governor George Sewall Boutwell of Massachusetts]
Photograph
Southworth & Hawes
Maker
Albert Sands Southworth, American, 1811–1894; Josiah Johnson Hawes, American, 1808–1901
[Governor George Sewall Boutwell of Massachusetts]
ca. 1851
Daguerreotype
Image: 7 3/16 × 5 1/4 in. (18.3 × 13.3 cm) (whole plate)
Case: 9 3/16 × 7 1/4 × 1 1/4 in. (23.3 × 18.4 × 3.2 cm)
Purchase
1969.0200.0023
Inscriptions Embossed into the velvet pad inside case, C: HARTFORD MANUFACTURING CO \ HARTFORD, CONN.
Inscribed in pen on applied label on spine of case: 657
Entry 657 in Mackay's notebook (located in library): Large 7x9 conventional design gutta percha case, one of 3 designs known in this largest size. Contains fine dag. of Geo. Sewell Boutwell, taken by Southworth & Hawes of Boston, probably while he was gov. of Mass., in 1851-52. George Sewell Boutwell, statesman born in Brookline Mass., Jan 28, 1818. Died Feb. 27, 1905. He became a merchant at Groton, in which occupation he remained until 1855. During convenient times he read law and entered politics in 1840. He was selected seven times to the Legislature as a Democrat, and was Governor in 1851-52. When the Republican party was organized he went over to that organization and was twice elected to Congress on the Republican ticket. In 1869 he was made Sec. of the Treasury by Pres. Grant, but resigned that position in 1873 to enter the U.S. Senate. He was for six years overseer of Harvard College, and wrote many able articles on taxation, finance, and educational topics. Dag. of Boutwell by Southworth and Hawes of Boston. Cost 2.50 but worth many times that. These large plates cost 100 dollars for the donor of the Metropolitan Museum Collection. Case from Bridgeport, Conn., Cost 9.50 which was rarest of bargains. It is worth 40 or 50 dollars. Whole item cost 12.00, but worth 60.00 or 70.00
Inscribed in pen on applied label on spine of case: 657
Entry 657 in Mackay's notebook (located in library): Large 7x9 conventional design gutta percha case, one of 3 designs known in this largest size. Contains fine dag. of Geo. Sewell Boutwell, taken by Southworth & Hawes of Boston, probably while he was gov. of Mass., in 1851-52. George Sewell Boutwell, statesman born in Brookline Mass., Jan 28, 1818. Died Feb. 27, 1905. He became a merchant at Groton, in which occupation he remained until 1855. During convenient times he read law and entered politics in 1840. He was selected seven times to the Legislature as a Democrat, and was Governor in 1851-52. When the Republican party was organized he went over to that organization and was twice elected to Congress on the Republican ticket. In 1869 he was made Sec. of the Treasury by Pres. Grant, but resigned that position in 1873 to enter the U.S. Senate. He was for six years overseer of Harvard College, and wrote many able articles on taxation, finance, and educational topics. Dag. of Boutwell by Southworth and Hawes of Boston. Cost 2.50 but worth many times that. These large plates cost 100 dollars for the donor of the Metropolitan Museum Collection. Case from Bridgeport, Conn., Cost 9.50 which was rarest of bargains. It is worth 40 or 50 dollars. Whole item cost 12.00, but worth 60.00 or 70.00
