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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.
- Kendall, E. Otis.
- 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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