Photographers:
Connections:
LL/131953
William Shew
1857 (ca.)
[Man with beard]

Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate
Amon Carter Museum
Accession number: P1989.22.4
 
Inscriptions
[descriptive paragraph about case, black type on sheet of paper underneath daguerreotype]: Improved Union Cases. (underlined) \ S. Peck's Patent, \ October 3, 1854. (underlined) \ S.Peck & Co., \ New Haven, CT., \ are the sole manufacturers of the gen- \ uine Union Cases, of which, the latest \ improvement, consists in the beautiful \ shades of color, and fineness of texture, \ and of having the hinges inserted in \ metal; thus preventing the breaking \ out of the hinge.
 
LL/131953


 

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