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Simons, M. P.
(Montgomery P.)
photographer.
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Algernon Roberts, 1828-1868. Age about 21. Pencoyd
[graphic].
Philadelphia,
September 4, 1848.
1 photograph :
daguerreotype ;
1/4 plate.
Seated, waist-length portrait of Roberts, well coiffed, wearing a big black bowtie. His left arm is resting on a table. Pencoyd was the Roberts Family estate near Philadelphia.
Forms part of the Roberts/Thompson Collection.
Cased photographs retrospective conversion project.
Pad: Dark purple velvet.
Mat: Oval.
Case: Leather. It is shaped like a book and is similar to Fig. 41 in American Miniature Case Art by Floyd and Marion Rinhart (Cranbury, New Jersey: A.S. Barnes and Co., Inc., 1969.) The case manufacturer is identified as H.A. Eichmeyer of Philadelphia.
Attributed to Simons based on entry in Robert's diary dated September 4, 1848 (HSP, Roberts Family Papers #2087) that reads: Had my daguerreotype taken with Sidney for Uncle George at Simmons [sic] ....He took us in a sitting posture.
Reproduced in "The Ties That Bind: Daguerreotypes and the Roberts and Thompson Families" by Sarah Weatherwax in The Daguerreian Annual 1999 (Pittsburgh, Pa.: The Daguerreian Society, 1999) p. 210. See also the Board Report for January 20, 1998.
Roberts, Algernon Sydney,
1828-1868,
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Daguerreotypes
1840-1850.
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Portrait photographs
1840-1850.
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Photograph cases
1840-1850.
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PA. Philadelphia.
1848.
P.9562.5
Library Company of Philadelphia
Print Dept.
Cased photos [P.9562.5]
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Cased photos [P.9562.5]
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