Merchant's Exchange, Philadelphia
Photograph
Merchant's Exchange, Philadelphia
ca. 1849
Salted paper print
Image (diameter): 3 9/16 in. (9.1 cm)
Paper: 6 5/8 × 4 13/16 in. (16.8 × 12.2 cm)
Gift of Harold White
1981.2914.0001
Inscriptions Inscribed in pencil on verso, TL: W & F Langenheim Philadelphia
note accompanying print written in museum hand: The Merchant's Exchange, Philadelphia. Calotype signed by W. and F. Langenheim, Philadelphia and sent to H. Fox Talbot as sample of their work. Gift of Harold White, who acquired it from Miss M.T. Talbot, Lacock Abbey Eng. Similar, but not identical, to calotype dated Aug. 16, 1849, repr.
by Taft --Phot. and American Scene,-- p. 108, from Talbot coll.
note accompanying print written in museum hand: The Merchant's Exchange, Philadelphia. Calotype signed by W. and F. Langenheim, Philadelphia and sent to H. Fox Talbot as sample of their work. Gift of Harold White, who acquired it from Miss M.T. Talbot, Lacock Abbey Eng. Similar, but not identical, to calotype dated Aug. 16, 1849, repr.
by Taft --Phot. and American Scene,-- p. 108, from Talbot coll.
