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New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Portrait Of An Unknown Man
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.

Portrait Of An Unknown Man

Artist James Wallace Black (American, 1825-1896)
CultureAmerican
Dateca. 1862
MediumAlbumen
DimensionsOverall, Support: 4 x 2 1/2 in. (10.2 x 6.4 cm)
Overall, Image: 3 5/8 x 2 1/4 in. (9.2 x 5.7 cm)
InscribedStamped on reverse: Photography by Black, 173 Washington Street, Boston
Credit LineMuseum purchase and gift of Reid Diggs, Jr.
Object number90.78
On View
Not on view
DescriptionThis carte de visite is a half-length portrait of a man with his proper left arm behind him and proper right arm extended to a table, right hand holds a hat. This is an 1860s-1870s portrait.

New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Charles DeForest Fredricks
1862-1868
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Charles DeForest Fredricks
1860 - 1879
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Charles DeForest Fredricks
1860s-1870s
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Charles DeForest Fredricks
1860s-1870s
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Charles DeForest Fredricks
1860s-1870s
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Charles DeForest Fredricks
1860s
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Charles DeForest Fredricks
ca. 1865
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Mathew B. Brady
1860s-1870s
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Charles DeForest Fredricks
1860s-1870s
Photographed by Scott Wolff.  Scanned from a slide.  Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Albert Sands Southworth
ca. 1850
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Charles DeForest Fredricks
1860-1867