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1848 Daguerreotype of Manhattan sells for $62,500:
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Re: 1848 Daguerreotype of Manhattan
Is that a prostitiute on that hill doing a song and dance number?Wow!Even in 1848,they had them all over the place.Cullen Smith
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You know it's not really an impressive photograph in terms of composition, to me anyway. I guess given that it's an outdoor photo and that it's an early one at that makes it so valuable. ~GaryGary Dombrowski
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Re: 1848 Daguerreotype of Manhattan
It would be to bad to find out that you paid $62k for a picture of a house in the country.. I haven't seen anything that actually proves that its Manhattan ..:)thanks
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Re: 1848 Daguerreotype of Manhattan
From the Sotheby's auction listing:
The date and location of the daguerreotype have been taken from a manuscript note, signed 'L. B.,' which was folded and placed behind the daguerreotype plate in its original leather case. Written in a neat, cursive hand, in dark ink on pale blue paper, the note reads as follows:
'This view, was taken at too great a distance, & from ground 60 or 70 feet lower than the building; rendering the lower Story of the House, & the front Portico entirely invisible. (the handsomest part of the House.) The main road, passes between the two Post & rail fences. (called, a continuation of Broadway 60 feet wide.) It requires a maganifying [sic] glass, to clearly distinguish the Evergreens, within the circular enclosure, taken the last of October, when nearly half of the leaves were off the trees.
'May 1849. L. B.'Brian Koenig
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