Taliaferro Preston Shaffner,Inventor,Telegraph Company Official,Author,Historian
Title: [Taliaferro Preston Shaffner, full-length portrait, three-quarters to the right, head front, standing, holding a tall hat. On the left is a chair and on the right a small table covered with tablecloth]
Related Names:
Brady, Mathew B., ca. 1823-1896.
Date Created/Published: [between 1844 and 1860]
Summary: Inventor, associate in the introduction of the telegraph and north Atlantic cable; telegraph company official; author and historian.
Notes:
Scratched on face of plate: Schaffner. Scratched on back of plate: 244.
Identification from an engraving by J.C. Buttre for Shaffner's Telegraph Manual.
Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920. (DLC/PP-1920:46153).
Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).
Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.
Subjects:
Shaffner, Tal. P.--(Taliaferro Preston),--1818-1881.
Daguerreotypes--1840-1860.
Portrait photographs--1840-1860.
Bookmark /2004664054/
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