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Gift of Dr. Marvin B. Day, 1978.94.79, Connecticut Museum of Culture and History, No known copy…
Thomas Mills Day
Gift of Dr. Marvin B. Day, 1978.94.79, Connecticut Museum of Culture and History, No known copyright

Thomas Mills Day

Date1851
MediumDaguerreotype; hand-colored silver-coated copper plate in gilt-painted wood frame with glass over it
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (image height x width): 3 3/4 × 2 7/8in. (9.5 × 7.3cm)
Frame (height x width): 6 × 5in. (15.2 × 12.7cm)
ClassificationsGraphics
Credit LineGift of Dr. Marvin B. Day
DescriptionDaguerreotype by an unknown photographer of Thomas Mills Day. The image is hand-colored. Day is wearing a jacket colored red and a red fez with a blue tassle. He is smoking a pipe.
Object number1978.94.79
InscribedHandwritten on paper label adhered to back of frame: "T. M. Day at Paris / in 1851"

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