Eliphalet Brown
1856
Matsmai Kangasyu, Deputy of the Prince of Matsmay

Lithograph, from a daguerreotype
8 3/4 x 5 3/4 in.
 
Archive Farms
The Patrick Montgomery Collection, Object No. 2013.448
 
Ackerman from a daguerreotype by Eliphalet Brown Jr..
 
Published 1856 by D. Appleton & Co., New York for "Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan, performed in the years 1852, 1853, and 1854" by Francis L. Hawks.
 
Issued Washington, D.C., 1856 by A.O.P. Nicholson. Brown was the photographer on Commodore Matthew Perry's groundbreaking naval expedition to Japan in 1852-53.
 
LL/112695