Object Details
Scope and Contents
Original daguerreotype in hinged leather case. Daguerreotype plate marked, "CHRISTOFLE," and to the right of this is a maker's mark in form of an oval enclosing a pan balance with "C" on each side, 4 stars above and "CHRISTOFLE" below. Daguerretype cleaned by the Library of Congress at the request of the BAE before making this negative.
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Local Numbers
OPPS NEG.53887
Local Note
"Warren Thompson of Philadelphia introduced galvanizing (refers to "resilvering" or double-plated silver) to France as a part of "le procede Americain," and the firm of Christofle began to manufacture in 1851 their "scale" plates, so called because of the hallmark, a pair of scales, the government symbol for electroplated wear. "Their product was endorsed by Thompson in a letter dated March 20, 1851, which Christofle reprinted in an advertisement in the French professional photographers' magazine, La Lumiere." --Beaumont Newhall, The Daguerreotype in America, 1961, page 120.
Black and white copy negative
Topic
Seminole
Indians of North America -- Southern states
Culture
Miccosukee Seminole (Mikasuki)
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Biographical / Historical
The original, belonging to Billy Bowlegs, was taken from his camp on November 19, 1857, by soldiers including Captain L.G. Lesley, and was inherited by the latter's grandson, Theodore Lesley of Tampa. See information with 42913.
Date: Original daguerreotype taken 1852.
Extent
1 Photograph (3 3/4x4 1/4 in)
Date
1852
Archival Repository
National Anthropological Archives
Type
Archival materials
Photographs
Genre/Form
Photographs
Restrictions
Restriction: Not to be reproduced without Mr Lesley's permission; therefore prints are not to released by the BAE to persons who have not first secured Mr Lesley's permission. This restriction does not apply to the Smithsonian, the Library of Congress, "or any other government agency which may wish to use it for research, their publications or display." (Leslie to Sturtevant, June 24, 1963).
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Record ID
ebl-1628267668517-1628267670443-4