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Ezra Otis Kendall

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Format:
Image
Author/Creator:
Johnson, Walter Rogers.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Kendall, E. Otis (Ezra Otis), 1818-1899.
Physical Description:
portrait pure silver 9.6 x 7 cm. silver thin paper mat with simple line ornamentation in ink around the opening; wooden frame, covered with Florentined, tooled leather; housed in wood case covered with marbles paper October or November 1839.
Place of Publication:
Philadelphia, Pa. : Walter Rogers Johnson, [1839]
Summary:
This image is "the earlierst daguerreotype portrait from life, taken in Philadelphia." [Root, "Camera and Pencil," p. 358].
Notes:
Call # WRJ-HSP-1.
Title supplied by cataloguer.
OCLC:
799902412

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