Front Street, Portland, Oregon
Attributed to
Joseph Buchtel
(American, 1830 - 1916)
Dateca. 1852
MediumDaguerreotype
DimensionsPlate (half): 4 1/2 × 5 1/2 inches (11.43 × 13.97 cm)
Case (open): 9 1/2 × 6 × 3/8 inches (24.13 × 15.24 × 0.95 cm)
Case (closed): 4 3/4 × 6 × 5/8 inches (12.07 × 15.24 × 1.59 cm)
Case (open): 9 1/2 × 6 × 3/8 inches (24.13 × 15.24 × 0.95 cm)
Case (closed): 4 3/4 × 6 × 5/8 inches (12.07 × 15.24 × 1.59 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.104
Signednone
Inscribednone
Markingsnone
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DescriptionImage of buildings lining a dirt road. One man stands in the street near the lower right corner and a group of men in top hats stand on a porch with a large wooden barrel in the lower left. This half plate cased daguerreotype is housed in a brass mat inside full leather case with floral motif and a pink silk liner.Exhibition History
Developing
Greatness: the Origins of American Photography, 1839-1885. The Nelson-Atkins
Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, June 9 – December 30,2007, no. 71.
Rotation 23. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, January 18 – May 28, 2017, no cat.
Photographic Wonders: American Daguerreotypes from The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Taft Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH, 17 May-25 August 2013, Wichita Art Museum, January 17 – May 10, 2015, no cat.
Rotation 23. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, January 18 – May 28, 2017, no cat.
Hallmark Cards Inc., Kansas City, MO, 1999;
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.
Keith F. Davis. The Origins of American Photography: from Daguerreotype to Dry-Plate, 1839-1885. With contributions by Jane L. Aspinwall. Kansas City, MO: Hall Family Foundation: in association with the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2007, 56 (repro.), 309.
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