[Man with cow]

[Man with cow]

Photograph

[Man with cow]

ca. 1865
Tintype
Image: 3 3/8 × 4 9/16 in. (8.6 × 11.6 cm) (1/2 plate)
Case: 6 × 4 5/8 × 7/8 in. (15.2 × 11.7 × 2.2 cm)
Purchase
Inscriptions Inscribed in pen on applied label on spine of case: [Crossed out] 91
Entry 91 in Mackay's notebook (located in library): Very Large ambrotype of tiny baby in quaint old buggy. From Mrs. H. Allen of Providence, R.I. She said it was "sold to the Hobby Shop by an old man who had been a servant in the Roger Williams family, he didn't remember which one it was." Roger Williams family one of earliest settlers in R.I. (Trade)
Entry 91 in Mackay's collection inventory notebook (located in library): Half plate tintype of close-up bearded farmer holding lead-rope of large steer in foreground.
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