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Anson Clark American
Not on view
Clark was a marble cutter, a melodeon maker, and one of the earliest daguerreotypists in western Massachusetts. By 1843 he had become interested in counterfeiting paper currency by daguerreotyping banknotes and then engraving the daguerreotype plates to print new bills.
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Title: [Bank Note, West Stockbridge, Massachusetts]
Artist:
Anson Clark (American, active 1850s)
Date: 1850s
Medium: Daguerreotype
Dimensions: 8.9 x 19.1 cm (3 1/2 x 7 1/2 in. )
Classification: Photographs
Credit Line: Purchase, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, by exchange, 1998
Object Number: 1998.47
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