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THBHalf Plate Daguerreotype of Michigan Southern & Indiana Railroad Conductors
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LiveJun 22, 2018
Cowan’s American History: Premier Auction, scheduled for June 22, 2018 is comprised of early photographs, documents, manuscripts, broadsides, flags, and more dating from the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, Late Indian Wars, World War I and II and beyond. Cowan's Auctions dawnie@cowans.com
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Half plate daguerreotype of two men wearing suits and top hats, posed with gold-tinted pocket watches and railroad lanterns. The hat band of the man on the right clearly reads "Conductor" with partially obscured letters below that, of which S & N can reasonably be discerned. This supports a modern note accompanying the image that describes it as relating to the Michigan Southern & Northern Indiana Railroad (M.S. & N.I.). That railroad was the result of several mergers and acquisitions in the 1840s and 1850s, taking on the M.S. & N.I. name on April 25, 1855, after which it absorbed other railroads before becoming the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway, which was acquired by Cornelius Vanderbilt's New York Central & Hudson River Railroad in 1877. The image offered here may well have been made to commemorate one of the acquisitions of the mid-1850s, with the men exchanging lanterns and coordinating their watches in order to run on the same time table. Housed in a pressed paper case separated at the spine.
Light curved "swipe" scratches on the plate from an unfortunate attempt at cleaning at some point in the past, but thesescratches are still rather light andthe clarity of the image still very good.Condition
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