Unidentified man [photograph], [ca. 1845-1857].

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Unidentified man [photograph], [ca. 1845-1857].

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/62139552

Sixth-plate daguerreotype in leather case of an unidentified man, possibly a member of the Forbes family, taken ca. 1845-1847 by John Plumbe, Jr. of Boston, Mass.

1 photograph : daguerreotype, b&w ; visible image 7 x 5 1/2 cm (sixth-plate), in case 9 x 8 cm.

Massachusetts Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 7809454

Massachusetts Historical Society

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Forbes family

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6b37b16 (family)

Plumbe, John, 1809-1857

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6m90nw1 (person)

At the time this diary was written John Plumbe was a civil engineer in Sinipee, Wis. and Dubuque, Iowa waiting for a commission from the United States Congress to survey the route for a transcontinental railroad. In 1840 he took up photography as a career after seeing the work of a daguerreotypist in Washington, D.C. The following year he opened a gallery in Boston and eventually maintained galleries in thirteen cities. Plumbe opened the nation's first Washington, D.C. gallery in 1844. By 1848 P...