Mary P. Turpin Booth

Unknown American, American

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about 1850

Daguerreotype with half case

Plate: 2 1/2 × 2 in. (6.4 × 5.1 cm)

Case: 2 15/16 × 2 7/16 in. (7.5 × 6.2 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Andrew E. Lewin, Class of 1981

2005.61.2

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

19th century

Object Name

Photograph

Research Area

Photograph

Not on view

Inscriptions

Inscribed, in graphite, on separate slip of paper: Mary P. Booth

Course History

ARTH 48.02, History of Photography, Katie Hornstein, Winter 2020

ARTH 48.02, History of Photography, Katie Hornstein, Winter 2020

Art History 48.02, Histories of Photography, Katie Hornstein, Spring 2024

Provenance

Unidentified Ohio dealer found the image in Painesville, Lake County, Ohio, along with other images including some identified as Eli Booth and a couple more identified as Mary Booth (said to have come from an old hotel); (the 1870 census for Mauch Chuck, Pennsylvania lists a Hotel Keeper Elias Booth and his wife Mary P. Booth, born Connecticut and at the corresponding age for Mary P. Turpin in 1860 Census); sold to Walt Plunkett, Tuscon, Arizona (dealer); sold via e-bay to Andrew Lewin, Scarsdale, New York, 2005; given to present collection, 2005.

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