"Ellen M. Mears; nee Munsell", before 1860

daguerreotype

PHOTOGRAPHS - DAGUERREOTYPES
before 1860
glass; velvet; plastic
overall (open): 3 x 5-1/4 x 3/8 in.; image: 2-1/2 x 2 in.

Daguerrotype; "Ellen M. Mears; nee Munsell", before 1860 (see Manuscript coll. 311); from the collection of Captain Richard C. Mears (1829-1899); photograph of Ellen M. Mears (first wife of Captain Richard C. Mears); image is housed in a Union Case, displaying early works plastic manufacturing and technology; on the left interior side of the case (opposite of the photograph) is a stamped velvet inset; handwritten on paper immediately below portrait "Ellen M. Mears; nee Munsell".

2005.34.128