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Family Portrait: Members of the Stedman, Priest and Atkins families of Boston

John A. Whipple (American, 1822–1891)
1848–1851

Medium/Technique Photograph, daguerreotype
Dimensions Sight: 25.1 x 30.2 cm (9 7/8 x 11 7/8 in.)
Framed: 45.7 x 50.8 x 5.1 cm (18 x 20 x 2 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. M. Graham Murdock
Accession Number1970.330
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas, Photography
ClassificationsPhotographs

DescriptionMammoth plate daguerreotype with dark-brown wood and gesso frame of the period.
ProvenanceMrs. M. Graham Murdock, 144 Hollis Avenue, North Quincy, MA; gift April 1970. Through descent from her great-grandfather, Joel Priest of Rindge, NH