Belt-Driven Tool-Sharpening Grindstone Photograph
notes: label: Description
content: This photograph shows bench-top tool sharpening grindstone. Photograph marked "E. Jessup. 5 & 9 West Main St. Middletown, N.Y." Grindstone photographed on a surface covered with a drapery.
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content: Photographer Edwin Jessup was born 13 November 1813 on a farm in Wawayanda, New York, the son of Appollos Jessup and Elizabeth Stewart. Circa 1841 he came to Middletown, Orange County, New York and opened a private school at his residence on Washington Street that was successful.
label: Description
content: He married Sarah Ellen Cox on 2 April 1843, and the couple would have at least four children. In 1851, he gave up teaching to become a daguerreotype artist, setting up a studio at 5 West Main Street.
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content: In the 1860 census his occupation was daguerreotype artist, with real
label: Description
content: estate of $2,500 and personal property of $500. About this time he formed a partnership with Archibald Baird to form “Baird & Jessup” in Middletown. Jessup was listed from 1862 through 1866 in Civil War tax lists. When Baird died in 1880, the census shows Edwin Jessup ran the studio for about five years on his own, and then with Edwin Jessup, Jr., until about 1888, when he retired for health reasons.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: associated place
content: United States: Connecticut, Colebrook
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content: Work and Industry: Mechanical and Civil Engineering
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1983.0388.02
label: accession number
content: 1983.0388
label: catalog number
content: 1983.0388.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Photograph
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 6.5 x 4.25;