[Massachusetts farm house]
Photograph
Unidentified
Maker
[Massachusetts farm house]
ca. 1840
Daguerreotype
Image: 4 1/2 × 3 1/4 in. (11.4 × 8.3 cm) (1/2 plate)
Case: 6 × 4 3/4 × 13/16 in. (15.2 × 12.1 × 2.1 cm)
Purchase
1969.0201.0055
Inscriptions Inscribed in pen on applied label on spine of case: 688
Inscribed in pen on label pinned inside of case: Old Massachusetts \ farm home of 1840. \ An excellent daguerreotype
Entry 688 in Mackay's notebook (located in library): Half-plate dag. in nice lather case, showing New England (Mass.) farm home, barns, picket fence, pitching posts, horses, and carriages, etc. Must be Winter time, for horse has blanket & trees are bare. Bought in Aberdeen, Wash., July 1948. Cost $8.25
Inscribed in pen on label pinned inside of case: Old Massachusetts \ farm home of 1840. \ An excellent daguerreotype
Entry 688 in Mackay's notebook (located in library): Half-plate dag. in nice lather case, showing New England (Mass.) farm home, barns, picket fence, pitching posts, horses, and carriages, etc. Must be Winter time, for horse has blanket & trees are bare. Bought in Aberdeen, Wash., July 1948. Cost $8.25
