[Boy]
Photograph
Unidentified
Maker
[Boy]
ca. 1857
Daguerreotype
Image (1/9 plate): 1 15/16 × 2 3/8 in. (4.9 × 6.1 cm)
Case: 2 1/2 × 2 15/16 × 1/2 in. (6.3 × 7.4 × 1.2 cm)
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer, 1951
1979.3256.0002
Inscriptions Printed on plate package verso: Littlefield, Parsons & Co. Manufacturers of Daguerreotype Cases. L.,P.& Co. are the sole proprietors and the only legal manufacturers of Union Cases, with the embracing Riveted Hinge. Patented Oct.14, 1856 and April 21, 1857
