Charles P. Smiley

Charles P. Smiley

Photograph

Robert H. Vance

Maker
American, 1825–1876

Charles P. Smiley

1857
Ambrotype with applied color
10.8 x 8.2 cm.; 1/4 plate
Gift of the 3M Foundation, ex-collection Louis Walton Sipley, 1977
1977.0267.0015
Inscriptions case pillow (embossed): R.H. Vance's Premuim Daguerrean Galleries
San Francisco, Sacramento, Marysville

applied labels (ink): Chas. P. Smiley
Likeness taken 1857 in San Francisco, California

paper with object (ink): black varnish behind figure only

case verso (imprinted): H.A. Eickmeyer Patent Feb. 27, 1855
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