Silas R. Ball

Silas R. Ball

Photograph

Alfred Brisbois

Maker
American, b. 1853

Silas R. Ball

ca. 1880
Albumen silver print
Image: 5 1/2 × 4 in. (14 × 10.1 cm)
Mount: 6 9/16 × 4 5/16 in. (16.7 × 11 cm)
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer, 1951
1982.0698.0002
Inscriptions Inscribed in pencil on recto, TLC: Ball, S.R. \ Ball, S.R.
Inscribed in blue ink on recto, BC: S. R. Ball
Printed on mount on recto, BC: Brisbois Mosher Gallery 125 STATE STREET \ CHICAGO.
Inscribed in pencil on verso, TC: #[illegible] S R Ball \ [illegible] \ S.R. Ball \ 1839 \ Lard Oil manufacturer 1850
Printed and inscribed in ink on applied label on verso, TRC: J.M. JOHNSON 1915
Inscribed in Boyer's hand in pencil on verso, BC: From \ Chgo Hist Soc \ W Howes sales agent \ 1946 \ Boyer
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