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

TITLE ON OBJECT: Chestnut Street, Philadelphia

ca. 1840
daguerreotype
12.4 x 14.1 cm., 1/4 plate
Gift of the 3M Company: ex-collection Louis Walton Sipley
GEH NEG: 25080
77:0259:0004

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).//
"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) "Chestnut at 2nd, So. Side."

FRAME: mounted in brown leather covered wooden frame

NOTES: Catalogued 9/88, SB. See variant image 77:259:2 which is clearly attributable to Mason.

SUBJECTS:
street scene, urban
architecture, commercial

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