Southworth & Hawes
American (active ca 1845-1861)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Boston Athenaeum, Interior View

ca. 1855
daguerreotype
21.5 x 16.5 cm., full plate
Museum Purchase
GEH NEG: 47481
74:0193:1116

OLD GEH NUMBER: 74:193:1130A

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Newhall, Beaumont. --The Daguerreotype in America.-- Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1968. p. 63.//
Sobieszek, Robert & Appel, Odette M. --Spirit of Fact: The Daguerreotypes of Southworth & Hawes.-- Boston: David R. Godine, 1976. pl. 101.//
Mulligan, Therese & Wooters, David. --Photography from 1839 to today: George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.-- Cologne: Taschen, 1999. p. 87.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY: "Spirit of Fact: The Daguerreotypes of Southworth and Hawes", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Brackett Clark Gallery, February 20 - June 8, 1976.//

INSCRIPTION: mount verso-(in ink & lined out) "74:193:1130A"

FRAME: painted brass frame

NOTES: Plate is in original frame/plate holder for use in the Grand Parlor Stereoscope. For other half of stereo view see 74:193:1117. Catalogued 10/90, MMC, updated 1/94, MMD.

SUBJECTS:
architecture, interior / Boston Athenaeum
people, reading