[Seated man wearing jacket and waistcoat]
Photograph
[Seated man wearing jacket and waistcoat]
ca. 1850
Daguerreotype with applied color
Image: 6 1/16 × 5 1/16 in. (15.4 × 12.8 cm)
Case: 6 9/16 × 5 3/8 × 7/8 in. (16.6 × 13.7 × 2.3 cm)
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer
1976.0168.0155
Inscriptions Inscribed in plate on recto, RB: Mayer Fres
Inscribed in Boyer's hand in ink on paper tape on edges of plate recto: DAGUERREOTYPE BY MAYER FRERES - PARIS - ODD PRESENTATION \ CASE SIZE 5 X 6 INCHES - FROM. PHILLIPS. CALIF. 2-1948 - BOYER -
Alden Scott Boyer inscription on interior piece of paper (ink): From Ray Phillips Coll Calif / 1948 / 1 [encircled] 1 11 [encircled] 13 Boyer rare [underlined] 1st one I have seen - B [underlined]
Inscribed in Boyer's hand in ink on paper tape on edges of plate recto: DAGUERREOTYPE BY MAYER FRERES - PARIS - ODD PRESENTATION \ CASE SIZE 5 X 6 INCHES - FROM. PHILLIPS. CALIF. 2-1948 - BOYER -
Alden Scott Boyer inscription on interior piece of paper (ink): From Ray Phillips Coll Calif / 1948 / 1 [encircled] 1 11 [encircled] 13 Boyer rare [underlined] 1st one I have seen - B [underlined]
