Details
Title [Portrait of an unidentified man] [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia 1850
Date [ca. 1850]
Physical Description 1 photograph : daguerreotype ; plate 70 x 83 mm (sixth plate format)
Description Bust-length, forward facing portrait of an African American man. Sitter is attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, and a black jacket. Sitter is probably a member or acquaintance of the Dickerson Family of Philadelphia.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Date inferred from photographic medium and attire of the sitter.
Pad: Red/brown velvet with geometric design in center surrounded by scrolls.
Mat: Oval.
Case: Leather. Spray of flowers in a nonpareil like border. Scroll work all around. Plain verso. Design called "Lily and Rose" and is Plate 114 in Floyd and Marion Rinhart's American miniature case art (Cranbury, New Jersey: A. S. Barnes and Co., Inc., 1969.)
Gift of Mary P. Dunn, 1993.
Reproduced on cover and on page 42 of Julie Winch's The Elite of our people (University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000).
Lib. Company. Annual report, 1993, p. 17-24.
Description revised 2021.
Access points revised 2021.
Subject Dickerson family.
African American men -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
African American men -- Clothing & dress -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre Daguerreotypes -- 1840-1850.
Portrait photographs -- 1840-1850.
Photograph cases -- 1840-1850.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Cased photos - Dickerson Family Collection [P.9427.2]
Accession number P.9427.2