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Photographed by Scott Wolff.  Scanned from a slide.  Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Street Scene, Possibly Virginia
Photographed by Scott Wolff.  Scanned from a slide.  Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Photographed by Scott Wolff. Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.

Street Scene, Possibly Virginia

Artist Luke C. Dillon (American, active 1870s - 1890s)
CultureAmerican
Dateca. 1855
MediumQuarter plate daguerreotype
DimensionsOverall: 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 in. (8.3 x 10.8 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds donated by Kathryn K. Porter
Object number88.113
Not on view
DescriptionThis is a quarter plate daguerreotype.

Exhibition History"A History of Photography: 15 Years of Photography at the Chrysler Museum," The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA; September 11, 1993 - March 6, 1994. "Mirror Images: Daguerre and the First Photographic Process," International Photography Hall of Fame & Museum, July 7 - October 1, 2001. Published ReferencesLori Oden. _Mirror Images: Daguerre and the First Photographic Process_. Oklahoma City, OK: The International Photography Hall of Fame and Musuem. 2001: pp. 14-15.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Luke C. Dillon
ca. 1884-1894
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Luke C. Dillon
ca. 1884-1894
4x5 transparency scanned on Hasselblad Flextight X1 by Ed Pollard-2014.
William Abbott Pratt
ca. 1850
Photographed by Scott Wolff.  Scanned from a slide.  Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Joseph Hobday
ca. 1852
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Unknown
1850
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Jesse H. Whitehurst
19th century
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Jesse H. Whitehurst
19th century
Photographed by Scott Wolff.  Scanned from a slide.  Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
William Langenheim
1850