[King's Chapel Burying Ground, Tremont Street, Boston, spring]

[King's Chapel Burying Ground, Tremont Street, Boston, spring]

Photograph

Samuel A. Bemis

Maker
American, 1793–1881

[King's Chapel Burying Ground, Tremont Street, Boston, spring]

April 19, 1840
Daguerreotype
Overall (full plate): 6 7/16 × 8 1/2 in. (16.4 × 21.6 cm)
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company
1980.0788.0014
Inscriptions verso, original frame (attached ink caption): Boston, April 19, 1840. / S.A. Bemis's first daguerreotype experiment. Iodizing process 25 mts / (apparatus new). Camera process 40 mts - wind N.W. sky clear, air / dry and very cold for the season. Lens Meniscus. Daguerr's [sic] / apparatus. Time 4.50 to 5.30 p.m. N.Y. Plate, ordinary
verso (typed label): EHPC 54
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