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1841-1880
HGO-01-004-A-3 [Drawer 47 in old database]
GUSN-254206
badly deteriorated portrait of man holding an open book; case made by John Plumbe Jr., a maverick daguerreotypist who operated an extensive chain during the 1840s
men (male humans)
costume (mode of fashion)
portraits
sitting
daguerreotypes (photographs)
photographs
DagID 813
1 daguerreotype
PC005
Daguerreotypes collection, c. 1845-1865
PC005.D06.318
daguerreotypes (photographs)
photographs
Item
HGO-01-004-A-3 [Drawer 47 in old database]
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