ca. 1850’s, [daguerreotype portrait of two instrument repairmen and a child]
via Cowan’s Auctions
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ca. 1850’s, [daguerreotype portrait of two instrument repairmen and a child]
via Cowan’s Auctions
ca. 1850’s, [daguerreotype portrait of a pregnant women in a fine dress and curls]
ca. 1850’s, [daguerreotype occupational portrait of a telegraph operator]
“When Samuel Morse used an electrical telegraph to send the message “What Hath God Wrought” in May, 1844 from Washington, D.C. to Baltimore, Maryland, he transformed communication in the United States. By the end of the Civil War, the telegraph had become the means by which information was transmitted long, as well as short distances.”
via Cowan’s Auctions
ca. 1850’s, [daguerreotype portrait of a carpenter holding his crosscut saw & gold tipped T-square]
via Ebay
ca. 1840-60, [daguerreotype portrait of a smiling, dark haired young lady, identified as Carlotta Patti, with lace gloves and a fan]
via Harvard University, Houghton Library, Harvard Theatre Collection
ca. 1850, “The Fisherman”, [daguerreotype portrait of a gentleman with a pipe and fishing pole], William C. North
via the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Photographic Collections
ca. 1850’s, [daguerreotype portrait of a fiddler]
ca. 1850’s, [daguerreotype portrait of a hunter with his dog and gun]
ca. 1840-60, [daguerreotype portrait of actress, Eliza Logan, earnestly praying in a white dress]
via Harvard University, Harvard Theatre Collection, Houghton Library
ca. 1852, [daguerreotype portrait of Harriet Beecher Stowe]
ca. 1855, [daguerreotype portrait of a elderly woman holding spectacles with a young girl who appears to be cross-eyed]
via the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Cased Photographs Collection
ca. 1840-60, [daguerreotype portrait of a gentleman with an intense stare and an extreme comb-over], William M. Shew
ca. 1854, [daguerreotype portrait of a gentleman]
via the J. Paul Getty Museum, Cased Objects, Photographic Collections
ca. 1849, [daguerreotype portrait of Miranda Adkins Sneed in a fine dress and lace gloves]
Miranda Adkins Sneed, wife of Sebron Graham Sneed and mother of eleven children, arrived in Austin in 1848. Sneed and her husband were prominent in local politics and were strong supporters of secession in 1861. Their home served as a recruiting station for Confederate soldiers during the Civil War and later was used as a hospital for wounded soldiers.
ca. 1845-50’s, [hand-tinted daguerreotype portrait of a blue eyed gentleman with an unbuttoned fly]
via Ebay
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