Details
Creator Evans, C. (Charles), fl. 1848-1860 photographer.
Title [Charles W. Gettz seated at table with one hand supporting his head.] [graphic] / Evans 380 Market St. Girard Row. Original Sun Beam.
Publisher Philadelphia
Date ca. 1855
Physical Description 1 photograph: daguerreotype; 1/6 plate.
Description Portrait of a seated young man resting one hand on his hand-painted pink cheek. His elbow is on a book placed on the nearby table. His other hand rests in his lap. Philadelphia city directories list Charles Getz as a farmer or gardener.
Notes Pad: Red velvet. Eagle with wings outstretched on top of sun. Embossed within two concentric circles forming the core of the sun: Evans 380 Market St. Girard Row. Original Sun Beam.
Mat: Elliptical.
Case: Leather. Spray of roses in an octagonal border. The design of the case is called A Spray of Roses, variant and is plate 127 in American Miniature Case Art by Floyd and Marion Rinhart (Cranbury, New Jersey: A. S. Barnes and Co., Inc., 1969.) Produced in quantity, ca. 1857. No design on verso.
Genre Daguerreotypes -- 1850-1860.
Portrait photographs -- 1850-1860.
Photograph cases -- 1850-1860.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Cased photos [P.2005.1.1]]
Accession number P.2005.1.1