Photographic copy of daguerreotype of Benjamin Jordan Kern
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content: OPPS NEG.PORT 46 C 1
label: Local Note
content: For biographical notes on the Kerns, see Grace and Wallace, New York H. S. Dictionary of Artists in America, 1957.
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content: Black and white copy negative
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content: Language and languages -- Documentation
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives / Additional Materials / ANONYMOUS
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content: 1 Photograph (2 1/4x2 3/4 in)
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
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content: Archival materials
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content: Photographs
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content: Photographs
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content: So far as the Bureau of American Ethnology is concerned, permission to reproduce is granted. The catalog record for BAE Portrait Negative Numbers 46-c-1, -2, -3, -4, which are 4 copy negatives of the Kern brothers, gives the source only as "From Miss Wolf." Dr Robert V. Hine, here 5/13/58, supplied the information that this refers to Miss Helen Wolfe, Lebanon, Pennsylvania, grand niece of Edward Kern, and owner of the three original daguerreotypes and the one photographic print (the latter being of Richard Kern) from which the BAE copy negatives were made. In July 1961, no correspondence or other record from Miss Wolfe could be found in the correspondence files of the BAE and the U. S. National Museum Registrar's office reported no papers in either the accession files or the permanent correspondence files of the Museum. Lacking any record to the contrary, we assume that these photographs were given without any restrictions by Miss Wolfe, and with the expectation that they would be made freely available to the public.