Daguerreotype of William Lloyd Garrison
National Museum of African American History and Culture

Daguerreotype of William Lloyd Garrison

Cutting & Turner, American · ca. 1860

silver amalgam, silver on copper photographic plates
National Museum of African American History and Culture
CC0 — Public Domain
National Museum of African American History and Culture

A daguerreotype of William Lloyd Garrison in a case. In the portrait, Garrison is wearing a suit and glasses and looking off to the left. The exterior of the case is black with gold trim. The interior has embossed red velvet on the left side and the photograph inside a gold oval frame on the right. The glass over the image is heavily scratched. Stamped into the bottom left corner of the frame: "CUTTING & TURNER / 10 TREMONT ROW". And in the bottom right corner: "AMBROTYPE. / PAT. JULY. 11-54"

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