David Maitland Armstrong as a Boy

ca. 1846

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In this boyhood photograph, Maitland Armstrong wears a velvet suit and leans on the arm of a chair. The photographers came from Newburgh, New York, close to the subjects's family home of Danskammer, on the west bank of the Hudson.

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Title: David Maitland Armstrong as a Boy
Artist: Remillard Photographers (Newburgh, New York)
Sitter: D. Maitland Armstrong (American, Newburgh, New York 1836–1918 New York)
Date: ca. 1846
Medium: Photograph
Dimensions: Sheet: 6 3/8 x 4 1/8 in. (16.2 x 10.5 cm)
Classification: Photographs
Credit Line: Gift of Helena Bienstock, Cynthia MacKay Keegan and Frank E. Johnson, 2012
Object Number: 2012.400.28
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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