Daguerreotype collection [photographs], 1840-1861.

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Daguerreotype collection [photographs], 1840-1861.

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This collection contains 495 daguerreotypes of all sizes, both uncased and in leather, velvet, or thermoplastic (Union) cases. Some of the daguerreotypes are hand-colored. Most of the photographs are studio portraits of various men, women, and children, as well as of portrait sculpture and painting. Other unique subjects include views of buildings and streets in Boston, including some of the first daguerreotypes taken in the city in 1840; examples of postmortem photography; and portraits of pets. Notable Boston photographers in the collection include Lorenzo G. Chase, Jeremiah Gurney, Luther Holman Hale, John Adams Whipple, Southworth & Hawes, Tyler & Company, and Whipple & Black, among many others. The collection consisted of individually acquired daguerreotypes and daguerreotypes removed from manuscript collections.

495 photographs in 80 pamphlet boxes and 5 boxes.

Massachusetts Historical Society

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Massachusetts Historical Society

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Hale, Luther Holman, 1823-1895,

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Whipple, John Adams, 1822-1891

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Served with the New England Women's Auxiliary Association of the United States Sanitary Commission, 1861-1866; Freedmen's Aid Society, 1866-1873; founded the New England Women's Club, 1868; Boston School Committee representative, 1875-1878; member of the Massachusetts Board of Education, 1879-1888; president of the Massachusetts School Sufrrage Association, 1880-1888; member and president of the Massachusetts Society for the University Education of Women, 1880-1886; and member of the Association...

Whipple & Black

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Sarah Inches Cobb Warner Bates was the mother of Hermann Jackson Warner (1831-1916). She was married to William Augustus Warner until his death in 1830, later marrying Dr. George Bates (b. 1785). From the description of Sarah Inches Cobb Warner Bates [photograph], 1854. (Massachusetts Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 52813743 From the description of Sarah Inches Cobb Warner Bates [photograph], 1854. (Massachusetts Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 52814000 ...

Gurney, Jeremiah, 1812-1895

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Southworth & Hawes

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Attributed to the photographic firm of Southworth & Hawes. This photographic print was one of a series of prints that formed a panoramic view of the city of Boston taken from the State House in 1858. The individual prints have been reproduced several times; this particular print probably dates from the late nineteenth century. From the description of View from the State House, looking North East [graphic]. [1858] (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 70822186 ...

Chase, Lorenzo G., 1823-

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Member of Massachusetts House, 1853; member of Massachusetts Senate, 1859; general in the Union Army during the Civil War; U.S. representative from Massachusetts, 1867-1875, 1877-1879; governor of Massachusetts, 1883-1884; Greenback candidate for president of the United States, 1884. From the description of Benjamin F. Butler [photograph], [ca. 1845-1847]. (Massachusetts Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 51530606 ...