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Daguerreotype
D060

Size
Date
Country
Artist
Sitter
Case
Mark

1/9
1854
Boston, USA
Walter B. Eastman
Unknown
Full case, mother of pearl inlay
No hallmark

 

"25 cent daguerreotypes
at the Plumbe National Daguerrian Gallery,
No 75 Court Street, the oldest establishment
of the kind in New England.
Founded 1840.
W. B. Eastman & Co Proprietors."

 

Walter B. Eastman ran the studio on 75 Court Street, Boston in 1847, and in 1854-1857.
Eastman bought out the studio from Richard Plumbe, who was in Iowa in 1854 and died in 1857.