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Gift of Helen Royce, 1952.113.9.1, Connecticut Museum of Culture and History, No known copyrigh…
Sidney Miller Hollister
Gift of Helen Royce, 1952.113.9.1, Connecticut Museum of Culture and History, No known copyright

Sidney Miller Hollister

Date1857-1859
MediumDaguerreotype; silver-coated copper plate in brass window mat package in bottom/right portion of tooled leather-covered wooden case. Tintype; collodion on lacquered iron in brass window mat package in top/left portion of tooled leather-covered wooden case.
DimensionsPlate (height x width): 3 1/4 × 2 3/4in. (8.3 × 7cm)
Other (height x width x depth): 3 3/4 × 3 1/4 × 1/2in. (9.5 × 8.3 × 1.3cm)
ClassificationsGraphics
Credit LineGift of Helen Royce
DescriptionCase containing two images of Sidney Miller Hollister as a baby/young child. One is a sixth-plate daguerreotype of him at perhaps a year of age. The other is a sixth-plate tintype of him perhaps a year later.
Object number1952.113.9.1-.2
InscribedHandwritten on slip of paper in case: "Sidney Miller / Hollister"
On View
Not on view
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