Photographic copy of daguerreotype of Richard Hovendon Kern

One of these is not a daguerreotype. It appears to have been copied from a page cut out of an album. Beside the portrait is a handwritten comment. Dr Robert V. Hine, here 5/13/58 says Miss Wolfe, grandneice of Edward Kern allowed several museums to copy the daguerreotypes. Huntington Library (which has the Kern diaries) has copies of the 3 daguerreotypes but not the larger picture (daguerreotype ?) of Richard Kern. So far as the Bureau of American Ethnology is concerned, permission to reproduce is granted. The catalog record for BAE Portrait Negative Numbers 46-c-1, -2, -3, -4, which are 4 copy negatives of the Kern brothers, gives the source only as "From Miss Wolf." Dr Robert V. Hine, here 5/13/58, supplied the information that this refers to Miss Helen Wolfe, Lebanon, Pennsylvania, grand niece of Edward Kern, and owner of the three original daguerreotypes and the one photographic print (the latter being of Richard Kern) from which the BAE copy negatives were made. In July 1961, no correspondence or other record from Miss Wolfe could be found in the correspondence files of the BAE and the U. S. National Museum Registrar's office reported no papers in either the accession files or the permanent correspondence files of the Museum. Lacking any record to the contrary, we assume that these photographs were given without any restrictions by Miss Wolfe, and with the expectation that they would be made freely available to the public.