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Alfred Wharton
Alfred Wharton
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Alfred Wharton

Permanent ID:
5571
Date:
circa 1852
Image Description:
Image: 1/9 plate; Seated man wearing jacket, vest and tie, with high collar, and striped pants, holding a top hat and something smaller (a cane?) on his lap. Preserver: Straight and embossed with simple pattern (after 1850). Mat: Nonpareil with matte finish (mid 1840s-mid 1850s). Case: Paper-covered wood-frame embossed with a geometric design [Similar to uncommon case design "The Tangent Circle" Plate 195 on page 157 of "American Miniature Case Art" by Floyd and Marion Rinhart (Cranbury, New Jersey: A. S. Barnes and Co., Inc., 1969)] and gilding in the interior, with a red velvet pinchpad and a red velvet cushion with a geometric design (1850-60s).
Inscription:
(Ink on paper): My father, Alfred / Wharton - of St. Paul / Minn. - who died [recto]; (ink on paper): twenty years ago [verso] (Enclosed item)

(ink on paper): April Fool (In case behind image)
Format:
Daguerreotype
Dimensions:
Width: 5.1 cm, Height: 6.3 cm (image)
Width: 2 in, Height: 2 1/2 in (image)
Width: 6 cm, Height: 7.2 cm, Depth: 1.7 cm (case)
Width: 2 3/8 in, Height: 2 7/8 in, Depth: 11/16 in (case)
Collection:
Historical Society of Pennsylvania cased photographs collection
Related Person or Organization:
Wharton, Alfred (depicted)
Library of Congress Subjects:
Daguerreotype [sh85035408]
Portrait photography--United States [sh2010107725]