Unknown woman, before 1860

daguerreotype

PHOTOGRAPHS - DAGUERREOTYPES
Littlefield, Parsons & Co.
1856 - 1860
glass; velvet; plastic
overal (open)l: 3-3/4 x 6-3/4 x 3/8 in.; overall: 3-1/4 x 2-3/4 in.

Daguerreotype; Unknown woman, before 1860; from the collection of Captain Richard C. Mears (1829-1899); photograph of an unknown woman, possibly someone that Mears corresponded with over the years; photograph is housed in a Union Box (showing early construction and use of plastic); left interior side of Union Box has a puple stamped velvet insert; printed on paper behind where photograph would be placed (on right side interior of box) reads "LITTLEFIELD, PARSONS & CO.,/ MANUFACTURERS OF/ Daguerreotype Cases/ L., P. & Co.,/ Are the sole Proprietors and only/ legal Manufacturers of/ UNION CASES,/ WITH THE/ Embracing Riveted Hinge./ Patented,/ Oct.14, 1856, & April 21, 1857."

2005.34.135