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Photographed by Scott Wolff.  Scanned from a slide.  Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Unknown Man
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.

Unknown Man

Artist Unknown
CultureAmerican
Dateca. 1850
MediumSixth plate daguerreotype
DimensionsOverall: 3 1/4 x 2 3/4 in. (8.3 x 7 cm)
Credit LineGift of Christina and Dr. George M. Kemp
Object number91.82
Not on view
DescriptionThis is a sixth-plate daguerreotype depicting an unknown man.

Label TextAmerican Unknown Man, ca. 1850 Sixth plate daguerreotype Gift of Christina and Dr. George M. Kemp 91.82 Exhibition HistoryTHE PORTRAIT IN AMERICA, The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA; January 26-April 8, 1990 "20/20: Fashion in Photography," The Alice R. and Sol B. Frank Photography Galleries, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, September 23, 1999 - January 2, 2000. "Portraying a Nation: American Portrait Photography, 1850-2010," Alice R. and Sol B. Frank Photo Galleries, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, August 25, 2010 - September 11, 2011.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Jesse H. Whitehurst
ca. 1845
Photographed by Scott Wolff.  Scanned from a slide.  Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Unknown
not dated
Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Oliver Harvey Willard
ca. 1854-1857
Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
McDonald & Co.
No Date
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
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