Daguerreotype of Mary Wilson Corbit and Mary Cowgill Corbit

c. 1853

Measurements

3-5/8 in x 3-1/4 in x 5/8 in

Materials

Leather, brass, velvet, glass, daguerreotype

Credit Line

Historic Odessa Foundation, The David Wilson Mansion, Inc.

Accession Number

1971.1007

Provenance

Ex coll. Mrs. E. Tatnall (Mary Corbit) Warner

Comments

The image in this daguerreotype shows Mary Wilson Corbit in a bonnet, seated with her 5-year-old daughter, Mary Cowgill Corbit, standing at her right side and holding onto her.

The daguerreotype case is made of black leather with yellow or gold lines at the top and bottom and a brass clasp.

For a colored photographic print owned by Mary Cowgill Corbit Warner of this daguerreotype, see accession no. 1971.1006.