Details
Creator Root, M. A. (Marcus Aurelius), 1808-1888 photographer.
Title [John Fries Frazer, 1812-1872] [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1850
Date ca. 1850
Physical Description 1 photograph : daguerreotype ; 1/2 plate.
Description Portrait of Frazer with mustache and short beard looking slightly to his left. Hand colored pink on cheeks.
Notes Engraving of Frazer [5657.F.29g] based on this Root daguerreotype.
Cased photographs retrospective conversion project.
Pad: Deep purple velvet. No design.
Mat: Double elliptical.
Case: Leather. Spray of mixed flowers within a fancy border. Swirls all around. Geometric design on verso.
See article by Sarah J. Weatherwax in Pennsylvania History, Vol. 64, Number 2, Spring, 1997, pp. 171-173 for information about Marcus Root, and John and Persifor Frazer.
See Anne Ayer Verplanck, Facing Philadelphia: Social Functions of Silhouettes, Miniatures, and Daguerreotypes, 1760-1860, (Ph.D. diss., College of William and Mary, 1996), fig. 52.
LCP AR [Annual Report] 1979, pgs. 37-38.
Subject Frazer, John Fries, 1812-1872 -- Portraits.
Genre Daguerreotypes -- 1840-1850.
Portrait photographs -- 1840-1850.
Photograph cases -- 1840-1850.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Cased photos [P.8475.1]
Accession number P.8475.1