Daguerreotype Case Cover (Replica)
date: label: Date made
content: ca. 1857
name: label: maker
content: Littlefield, Parsons and Company
label: engraver
content: F. B. Smith and Hartman
notes: label: Description
content: Replica of the front cover of a thermoplastic daguerreotype case made by Vistron, the chemical and plastics subsidiary of the Standard Oil Company (Ohio), perhaps in the 1970s. The original was made by the Florence Mfg. Co., perhaps in the 1860s. The image of George Washington crossing the Delaware is based on the Emanuel Leutze oil painting completed in 1851.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of J. Harry DuBois
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1984.0138.20
label: catalog number
content: 1984.0138.20
label: accession number
content: 1984.0138
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Daguerreotype Case Cover (Replica)
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 183 mm x 232 mm x 6 mm; 7 3/16 in x 9 1/8 in x 1/4 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/2 in x 9 1/8 in x 7 3/16 in; 1.27 cm x 23.1775 cm x 18.25625 cm