Early Ninth Plate Daguerreotype of Folk Art Painting, Man in Caned Chair barbers brush one can wear this guy

one can wear this guy around

I found this1935 Bar La Florida souvenir cocktail guide at the estate sale of an actress and philanthropist

this week it is Ann Bedell

The slate on the back is blank

Early Ninth Plate Daguerreotype of Folk Art Painting, Man in Caned Chair barbers brush one can wear this guyI think daguerreotypes of paintings are such special things, documents of a very particular moment in time, when silhouettes and painted portraits were just giving way to photographic ones; as such, to me, they represent a wonderful convergence of both technologies and sensibilities, and feel supremely tender and very very human. This one, a ninth plate, c. 1840s 50s I would think, captures a folk art painting of on older man in profile seated in a