Unidentified Photographer

DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Portrait of Stephen A. Douglas

ca. 1845
daguerreotype
14.0 x 10.8 cm., 1/2 plate
Museum Purchase: ex-collection Zelda P. Mackay
GEH NEG: 16908
69:0201:0037

NON-GEH NUMBER: Mackay #414

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Newhall, Beaumont. --The Daguerreotype in America.-- New York: Dover Publications, 1976. pl. 101.//
Mulligan, Therese & Wooters, David. --Photography from 1839 to today: George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.-- Cologne: Taschen, 1999. p. 60.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY: "American Photography: 1839-1900", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Brackett Clark Gallery, September 29, 1989 - January 7, 1990.//

NOTES: Catalogued 11/88, SB. Obtained from D. Van Dyke Antiques, 37 Russell St., Worcester, Mass. It was sold in Wilkin sale for $100." Mackay paid $20.00.

SUBJECT: personage, statesman / Douglas, Stephen A.