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Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Man
Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Color corrected by Pat Cagney.

Man

Artist Unknown
CultureAmerican
Dateca. 1855
MediumQuarter plate daguerreotype
DimensionsOverall: 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 in. (8.3 x 10.8 cm)
InscribedWritten on the reverse of the image: "E.M. Powers (daguerrer-typist, Richmond, VA)". Along the side: "Retaped 5/5/97 by D.A.W. Exetor" and along the bottom: "c 1855 or later".
Credit LineGift of Christina and Dr. George M. Kemp
Object number2001.39.18
On View
Not on view
DescriptionThis is a quarter plate daguerreotype of a man.

ProvenanceGift of Dr. and Mrs. George M. Kemp to the Chrysler Museum of Art, 2001.
Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
William Langenheim
19th century
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Unknown
1860
4x5 transparency scanned on Hasselblad Flextight X1 by Ed Pollard-2014.
William Abbott Pratt
ca. 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.
A.C. Partridge
October 10, 1854
Photographed by Scott Wolff.  Scanned from a slide.  Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Joseph Hobday
ca. 1852
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II digital slr-2008.
Edward Jacobs
ca. 1850
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Unknown
1850
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Unknown
ca. 1860