[Rodah Munn]
Photograph
Unidentified
Maker
[Rodah Munn]
ca. 1855
Daguerreotype with applied color
Image: 2 7/8 × 2 5/16 in. (7.3 × 5.9 cm) (1/6 plate)
Case: 3 5/8 × 3 1/8 × 3/4 in. (9.2 × 7.9 × 1.9 cm)
Purchase
1969.0202.0034
Inscriptions Inscribed in pen on applied label on spine of case: 395
Entry 395 in Mackay's notebook (located in library): Lovely daguerreotype of “Rodah (Rhoda?) Munn” All the Munn daguerreotypes were cousins of Mrs. Paterson’s mother. Mrs. Paterson’s mother came thru [?] with 2 children from N.Y. and her father came around the Horn in 9 months, from their home in Newark, New Jersey in 1849. Rodah Munn is young girl in dark dress. Cob-webby collar & cuffs & unusual gilt mat. Very clear dag. Gift of Mrs. Paterson.
Entry 395 in Mackay's notebook (located in library): Lovely daguerreotype of “Rodah (Rhoda?) Munn” All the Munn daguerreotypes were cousins of Mrs. Paterson’s mother. Mrs. Paterson’s mother came thru [?] with 2 children from N.Y. and her father came around the Horn in 9 months, from their home in Newark, New Jersey in 1849. Rodah Munn is young girl in dark dress. Cob-webby collar & cuffs & unusual gilt mat. Very clear dag. Gift of Mrs. Paterson.
