Unidentified Photographer

DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Two women & man in studio prop boat [Possibly Samuel Castner Sr., 1798-1879]

ca. 1875
tintype
10.8 x 15.7 cm.
Gift of 3M Company, ex-collection Louis Walton Sipley
GEH NEG: 25067
77:0268:0025

OLD GEH NUMBER: 440310-12 (SIPLEY)

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCE: Mulligan, Therese & Wooters, David. --Photography from 1839 to today: George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.-- Cologne: Taschen, 1999. p. 323.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY: "Survey of the History of 19th Century Photography", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Second Floor Gallery, March 1985 - April 1987, 1985.//

INSCRIPTION: verso-(in pencil) "Prior to 1879" (in grease pencil) "Gentleman in center died in 1879"

NOTES: Catalogued 2/85, updated 7/94, DZ. Possible identification from comparison with other portraits of Samuel Castner Sr.

SUBJECT: portrait, group