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[View Down Brattle Street from the Southworth & Hawes Studio at 5 1/2 Tremont Row, Boston]

Photography Studio Southworth and Hawes American
1855
Not on view
The Boston partnership of Southworth & Hawes was the leading photography studio in the United States from 1845 to 1862. While they produced portrait daguerreotypes for the most illustrious personalities of the day, they also made a number of exterior views that count among the major American artworks from the 1850s. This scene from their studio window is one in a series of three daguerreotypes that document activity around the Brattle Street Church during the funeral procession of Abbott Lawrence, a local philanthropist and businessman. As evidenced by the visible signage, the view is laterally reversed, as in most daguerreotypes. Each highly polished silvered-copper plate—exposed in a camera and developed in mercury vapors—is a unique photograph.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: [View Down Brattle Street from the Southworth & Hawes Studio at 5 1/2 Tremont Row, Boston]
  • Photography Studio: Southworth and Hawes (American, active 1843–1863)
  • Artist: Albert Sands Southworth (American, West Fairlee, Vermont 1811–1894 Charlestown, Massachusetts)
  • Artist: Josiah Johnson Hawes (American, Wayland, Massachusetts 1808–1901 Crawford Notch, New Hampshire)
  • Date: 1855
  • Medium: Daguerreotype
  • Dimensions: 21.6 x 16.5 cm (8 1/2 x 6 1/2 in.)
  • Classification: Photographs
  • Credit Line: Gift of I. N. Phelps Stokes, Edward S. Hawes, Alice Mary Hawes, and Marion Augusta Hawes, 1937
  • Object Number: 37.14.3
  • Curatorial Department: Photographs

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