1846-1861
HGO-01-004-A-6 [Drawer 51 in old database]
GUSN-253693
An image of a funerary monument by Margaret Foley, Magoun plot, Fir Avenue, Mount Auburn Cemetery, showing a stone monument which depicts a drapery-clad woman kneeling with her arm around girl, both with solemn expressions. Sobieszek and Appel #103. The Mount Auburn Cemetery straddles the town line between Cambridge and Watertown, and this monument is in Watertown.
monuments
daguerreotype (process)
sculpture (visual work)
exterior views
cemeteries
portraits
portrait format
daguerreotypes (photographs)
photographs
DagID 311
1 daguerreotype
PC005
Daguerreotypes collection, c. 1845-1865
PC005.D01.020
8 1/3 x 6 1/2 (HxW)(inches)
Watertown (Middlesex county, Massachusetts)
Southworth & Hawes (Photographic studio)
daguerreotypes (photographs)
photographs
Mount Auburn Cemetery (Cambridge, Mass.)
Item
HGO-01-004-A-6 [Drawer 51 in old database]
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