[Two Elderly Men Conversing]

John Adams Whipple American

ca. 1850

Not on view

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Title: [Two Elderly Men Conversing]
Artist: John Adams Whipple (American, Cambridge, Massachusetts 1822–1891 Grafton, Massachusetts)
Date: ca. 1850
Medium: Daguerreotype
Dimensions: oberall: 9 1/16 × 6 15/16 in. (23 × 17.7 cm)
Image: 7 1/4 × 5 1/4 in. (18.4 × 13.4 cm); visible
Classification: Photographs
Credit Line: Gilman Collection, Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2005
Object Number: 2005.100.856
Curatorial Department: Photographs

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