[E. Scudder High, Minister of Tonica, Illinois]
Photograph
Unidentified
Maker
[E. Scudder High, Minister of Tonica, Illinois]
ca. 1860
Ambrotype on ruby glass
Image: 2 1/4 × 2 3/4 in. (5.7 × 7 cm) (1/6 plate)
Case: 3 13/16 × 3 3/8 × 1 1/16 in. (9.7 × 8.6 × 2.7 cm)
Purchase
Inscriptions case bottom, under plate (black ink, printed on green paper): Littlefield, Parsons & Co., / MANUFACTURERS OF / Daguerreotype Cases. / [decorative line] / L., P. & Co., are the sole / Proprietors and only legal manu- / facturers of UNION CASES, with the / Embracing Riveted Hinge. / Patented October 14, 1856, / and April 21, 1857.
Inscribed in pen on applied label on spine of case: 429
Entry 429 in Mackay's notebook (located in library): Small ambrotype scene of little town of Tonica, La Sellko, Illinois [?], about 1860. Shows “Circuit Rider” Presbyterian Minister, Named E. Scudder High (Daddy High) in high silk hat, driving white horse and carriage. Shows another man, horse and carriage in front of home of Wm. Jackson Vaughn, with whom he boarded out when stopping in Lonica on his missionary circuit. New gutta percha case gift of Emil and Mollie Britt. Bought ambrotype scene of two sisters, Mrs. Yoho and Miss Gayetti, 364-30th Av, S.F. granddaughters of Wm. Jackson Vaughn. ($1.00)
Inscribed in pen on applied label on spine of case: 429
Entry 429 in Mackay's notebook (located in library): Small ambrotype scene of little town of Tonica, La Sellko, Illinois [?], about 1860. Shows “Circuit Rider” Presbyterian Minister, Named E. Scudder High (Daddy High) in high silk hat, driving white horse and carriage. Shows another man, horse and carriage in front of home of Wm. Jackson Vaughn, with whom he boarded out when stopping in Lonica on his missionary circuit. New gutta percha case gift of Emil and Mollie Britt. Bought ambrotype scene of two sisters, Mrs. Yoho and Miss Gayetti, 364-30th Av, S.F. granddaughters of Wm. Jackson Vaughn. ($1.00)
