House on Prairie

Dateca. 1855

MediumDaguerreotype

DimensionsPlate (quarter): 3 1/4 × 4 1/4 inches (8.26 × 10.8 cm)
Case (open): 8 × 5 × 3/8 inches (20.32 × 12.7 × 0.95 cm)
Case (closed): 5 × 5 × 3/4 inches (12.7 × 12.7 × 1.91 cm)

Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.

Object number2005.27.100

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Inscribednone

MarkingsIn tray, behind plate, in black type with black pen: "A.P. CRITCHLOW & CO., / Manufacturers of / Daguerreotype Cases, / A.P.C. & CO. / Are the Original Inventors of / the Composition for the Union Case, / (so called,) including all the various shades / of color and fineness of texture pecu- / liar to their manufacture and of the / EMBRACING REVITED HINGES, thus / securing them from breaking out as / do other that are inserted / with or without a / metal brace. / Hinge Patented Oct. 14, 1856. / And / April 21, 1857-"

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DescriptionImage of modest wooden structures in a straw-covered landscape; the sky is filled with clouds. This quarter plate cased daguerreotype is housed in a brass mat inside of a thermoplastic case by A.P. Critchlow & Co. with The Gypsy Fortune Teller motif and an embossed dark purple velvet liner.

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