South West Gate,Independence Square,Philadelphia,Pennsylvania,1840-1860

Title: South West gate leading into Indapendance [i.e., Independence] Square, Philada.
Date Created/Published: [between 1840 and 1860]
Notes:
Framed.
Accompanying labels detached from cover glass: '27' and '11.'
Label from back of frame: Daguerreotypes are 'mirror Reflections' and show the picture in reverse. This is an entrance to Independence Square - South East entrance and the buildings, probably part of Independence Hall and part of the building of the American Philosophical Society. Note the placard on the gate post Laughing Gas.
Provenance: The family of Titian Ramsey Peale to Edmond Bury to Marion Carson, 1938.
Photography in America : The formative years, 1839-1900 / Welling. Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1978, p. 6.
Purchase; Marian S. Carson; 1999; (DLC/PP-1999:126).
Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).
Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection (Library of Congress).
Exhibited: American Treasures of the Library of Congress.
Subjects:
Parks--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--1840-1860.
Daguerreotypes--1840-1860.
Landscape photographs--1840-1860.
Bookmark /2004664525/
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