Unidentified photographer
1850 (ca)
[Occupational portrait of a tinsmith with tools and newly made teapots.]

Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate
6.7 x 5.5 cm. (visible image)
 
Bancroft Library, University of California Berkeley
Identifier: BANC PIC 1905.16242:042--CASE
 
Young man, presumably a tinsmith or toleware maker, poses, seated, holding a teapot and tool, wearing an apron. Arranged on table next to him are other pots or pitchers and tools.
 
LL/127133