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New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Unknown Man With American Flag
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.

Unknown Man With American Flag

Artist Unknown
CultureAmerican
Dateca. 1842
MediumSixth plate daguerreotype
DimensionsOverall: 2 3/4 x 3 1/4 in. (7 x 8.3 cm)
Credit LinePurchase, Horace W. Goldsmith Fund
Object number88.140
Not on view
DescriptionThis is a sixth plate daguerreotype.

Exhibition History"History of Photography," Alice R. and Sol B. Frank Photography Galleries, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Va, June 15 - August 22, 1999.
Photographed by Scott Wolff.  Scanned from a slide.  Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Unknown
ca. 1850
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Jesse H. Whitehurst
ca. 1845
Image scanned from a transparency and color-corrected by Pat Cagney.
Joseph Hobday
ca. 1852
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Unknown
ca. 1855
Photographed by Scott Wolff.  Scanned from a slide.  Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Unknown
not dated
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Peter Edward Gibbs
19th century
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
White
19th century
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
William Abbott Pratt
1840s
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
William Abbott Pratt
1850s
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
W.A. Retzer
19th Century