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Mason, W.G.
American (active 1840s)

TITLE ON OBJECT: North side of Chestnut Street, East of Second St. looking towards the New Jersey shore.

June 5, 1843
daguerreotype
14.4 x 12.5 cm., 1/4 plate
Gift of the 3M Company: ex-collection Louis Walton Sipley
GEH NEG: 24905
77:0259:0002

OLD GEH NUMBER: 430724

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
"An American Century of Photography, 1840-1940: Sel. from Sipley/3M Col", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Brackett Clark Gallery, May 5 - October 1, 1978. (Traveled).//
"American Photography: 1839-1900", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Brackett Clark Gallery, September 29, 1989 - January 7, 1990.//
"Now and Then: Making The Daguerreotype", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Discovery Gallery, October 9, 1993 - April 3, 1994.//
"Reflections in a Glass Eye: Works from the International Center of Photography", US, NY, New York November 3, 2000 - March 18, 2001.//

INSCRIPTION: verso (signature (?) in ink) "Taken by W. G. Mason June 5th 1843 North side of Chestnut East of Second looking toward N. J. shore."

FRAME: mounted in brown leather covered wooden frame

NOTES: Catalogued 9/88, SB. See variant image of same area 77:259:4.

SUBJECTS:
street scene, urban
architecture, commercial

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