Luther Dana Peaslee (1810-1905)
Unknown American, American
about 1840s or 1950s
Daguerreotype
Overall: 2 1/4 × 1 3/4 in. (5.7 × 4.4 cm)
Frame: 7 1/2 × 9 3/4 in. (19.1 × 24.8 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Charlotte Wood Jewett Collection; Given by Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth E. Jewett
PH.981.98
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Photograph
Research Area
Photograph
Not on view
Course History
ARTH 17, History of Photography, Katie Hornstein, Spring 2013
ARTH 17.2, FILM 50, When Media Were New, Katie Hornstein, Spring 2014
ARTH 48.02, History of Photography, Katie Hornstein, Winter 2020
Exhibition History
American Art, Colonial to Modern, Israel Sack Gallery and Rush Family Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 31, 2019-January 20, 2020.
American Folk Art at the Hood Museum of Art (a thematic partial permanent gallery installation); Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, July 16, 2015.
Signs of Modern Life: Photographs from the Collections of Jane and Raphael Bernstein and Dartmouth College, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 13-October 25, 1998.
Provenance
Luther D. Peaslee (1810-1905); by descent to his granddaughter, Charlotte Wood Jewett (1904-1991) and Kenneth E. Jewett (1905-2003), Belfast, Maine, date unknown; given to present collection, 1981.
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