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New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Samuel Finley Breese Morse
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.

Samuel Finley Breese Morse

Artist Napoleon Sarony (1821-1896)
Publisher G.W. Thorne (American)
CultureAmerican
Date1870 - 1890
MediumAlbumen
DimensionsOverall, Image: 3 1/2 × 2 5/16 in. (8.9 × 5.9 cm)
Overall, Paper: 4 3/16 × 2 1/2 in. (10.6 × 6.4 cm)
Overall, Mat: 20 × 16 1/16 in. (50.8 × 40.8 cm)
InscribedPrinted on front: "Pro. Moss". Stamped on front: "Sarony, 680 Broadway, G.W. Thorne, 60 Nassau St., New York"
Credit LineMuseum purchase and gift of Reid Diggs, Jr.
Object number90.256
On View
Not on view
DescriptionThis is an albumen carte de visite depicting Samuel Finley Breese Morse, 1791-1872; inventor of electric telegraph and Morse code, painter, first president of the National Academy of Design.

New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Courtney
1860s-1870s
Image scanned from a transparency and color-corrected by Pat Cagney.
Napoleon Sarony
1870 - 1890
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Napoleon Sarony
1870 - 1890
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Napoleon Sarony
1870 - 1890
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Napoleon Sarony
1870 - 1890
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Napoleon Sarony
1870 - 1890
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Napoleon Sarony
1870 - 1890
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Napoleon Sarony
1870 - 1890
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Napoleon Sarony
1870 - 1890
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Napoleon Sarony
1870 - 1890
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Napoleon Sarony
ca. 1870