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[Portrait of a Seated Man with Chin Whiskers]
Creator
John Plumbe, Jr.American Daguerreotypist · 1809–1857
All works by this person →Short on funds and waiting to receive a commission from the United States Congress to survey the route for a transcontinental railroad, an idea which he is credited with originating, civil engineer John Plumbe, Jr., took up photography in 1840 after seeing the work of an itinerant daguerreotypist in Washington, D.C. A Welshman by birth, Plumbe opened a gallery in Boston the following year. He even
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- about 1841
- Medium
- Daguerreotype
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 62976792-a376-4f2d-9ff1-b7b01139c999
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