The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Photographs

[Daguerreotype Plate Box]

Unknown

Date

1840s

Medium

Linden wood, plated iron, iron-gall ink

Dimensions

9 15/16 × 4 1/2 × 7 7/16 in. (25.2 × 11.4 × 18.9 cm)

Object type

Box

Classification

Photographic Equipment

Object number

2016.648

Credit line

Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. John A. Moran Gift, in memory of Louise Chisholm Moran, Joyce F. Menschel Gift, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 2016 Benefit Fund, and Gift of Dr. Mortimer D. Sackler, Theresa Sackler and Family, 2016

The Met object ID 732219. The source CSV marks this record public domain, the official API identifies it as image-bearing, and the image was reverified as public domain before this page rendered.