[Daniel Webster]
Photograph
Attributed to Southworth & Hawes
Maker
Albert Sands Southworth, American, 1811–1894; Josiah Johnson Hawes, American, 1808–1901
[Daniel Webster]
1852
Daguerreotype
Image: 7 1/8 × 5 3/16 in. (18.1 × 13.2 cm) (whole plate)
Case: 9 1/8 × 7 5/16 × 1 1/8 in. (23.2 × 18.6 × 2.9 cm)
Purchase
1969.0201.0052
Inscriptions Inscribed in pencil on verso: Daniel Webster. Daguerreotype \ by Southworth & Hawes of Boston, Massachusetts.
Inscribed in pen on applied label on spine of case: 545
Entry 545 in Mackay's notebook (located in library): Large 7x9 daguerreotype of Daniel Webster, ¾ length. Scratched down center. Taken about 1845. Plate by Southworth & Hawes early Boston daguerreotypists, cost $7.50. Large leather case gift of Britts. Complete worth $35-$50
Inscribed in pen on applied label on spine of case: 545
Entry 545 in Mackay's notebook (located in library): Large 7x9 daguerreotype of Daniel Webster, ¾ length. Scratched down center. Taken about 1845. Plate by Southworth & Hawes early Boston daguerreotypists, cost $7.50. Large leather case gift of Britts. Complete worth $35-$50
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