Carte-de-Visite
date: label: Date made
content: ca 1860-1864
label: Date made
content: ca 1858-1864
name: label: maker
content: Tuttle, W. C.
notes: label: Description
content: Photograph of a seated man holding a surveyor's compass. The distinctive shape of the arms suggest that the compass was made by Levi Colton, a mathematical instrument maker who worked in New York around 1850, and in Hartford, Connecticut, in the mid-1850s.
label: Description
content: The inscription on the back of the card reads: “W. C. TUTTLE / Photographist. / Union, Maine.” William C. Tuttle (1835-1901) was a photographer who worked in several towns in Maine.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Maine, Union
topic: label: Subject
content: Surveying
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2006.0250.01
label: catalog number
content: 2006.0250.01
label: accession number
content: 2006.0250
objectType: label: Object Name
content: carte de visite
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cardboard (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 in x 2 1/2 in; 10.16 cm x 6.35 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 15/16 in x 2 1/2 in; 10.00125 cm x 6.35 cm