Mercantile Building with Freight Cars

Dateca. 1850

MediumDaguerreotype

DimensionsPlate (sixth): 3 1/4 × 2 3/4 inches (8.26 × 6.99 cm)
Case (open): 6 9/16 × 3 3/4 × 3/8 inches (16.67 × 9.53 × 0.95 cm)
Case (closed): 3 1/4 × 3 3/4 × 5/8 inches (8.26 × 9.53 × 1.59 cm)

Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation

Object number2005.37.70

Signednone

Inscribednone

MarkingsWhite sticker, on case recto, lower right, in blue pen: "283"; White sticker, in case behind plate, center, in black pen: "C-118 / RTTTT".

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DescriptionImage of a three-story building with freight cars parked along the right side. Two figures stand in front and horses are hitched to wagons near the left side. The signs on the building advertise two businesses: C.H.& A. Brackett, Wood, Coal, and Grain, and Vinton and Babbit, House and Sign Painters, who list "fancy painting and gilding" and "graining and glazing" as specialties. This sixth plate daguerreotype is housed in a brass mat inside of a case with a dark red velvet liner and unadorned pebbled case with push button.

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