Details
Creator Swift, Henry B., photographer.
Title [Reverend Henry Nixon.] [graphic] / Taken by Henry B. Swift, brother in law, 312 Markt St. formerly partner of S. F. B. Morse.
Publisher Philadelphia
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1853
Date ca. 1853
Physical Description 1 photograph : daguerreotype ; 1/6 plate.
Description Portrait of Nixon, wearing a high white collar. Nixon was the photographer's brother-law-in, married to Swift's sister Elizabeth.
Notes Cased photographs retrospective conversion project.
Pad: Raised red velvet with geometric design. Gilt border.
Mat: Ornamented modified nonpareil.
Case: Black laquer, shaped like a book, with mother of pearl inlay in the shape of a spray of roses. Spine is leather, with repeated floral design stamped in gold. Gilt edges. No design on verso. Single ornamented brass clasp.
Accompanying manuscript note reads: "Great uncle Henry Nixon Presby. Clergyman. Taken by Henry B. Swift, brother in law, 312 Markt St. formerly partner of S. F. B. Morse." The note identifies Nixon as a Presbyterian clergyman. However, the couple's 1852 marriage announcement identifies him as a Methodist Episcopal minister.
See Henry B. Swift research file.
Genre Daguerreotypes -- 1850-1860.
Portrait photographs -- 1850-1860.
Photograph cases -- 1850-1860.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Cased photos [P.2004.9.2]
Accession number P.2004.9.2