"The Merry Bootblacks, Inauguration, Washington, DC", 1889

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Medium

stereoscopic albumen prints

Dimensions

image/

sheet (each): 7.7 × 7.7 cm (3 1/16 × 3 1/16 in.)
mount: 8.9 × 17.9 cm (3 1/2 × 7 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ross J. Kelbaugh Collection, Purchased with support from the Ford Foundation

Accession Number

2023.39.201

Artists / Makers

B. W. Kilburn (artist) American, 1827 - 1909

Image Use

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Inscription

along right edge of mount printed in black ink: COPYRIGHTED 1889. BY B. W. KILBURN.; bottom center: 5065. The Merry Bootblacks, Inauguration, Washington, D. C. U. S. A.; on verso, by Ross Kelbaugh, top right in graphite: 12.2021 UH / AF243B; center printed in black ink: Photographed and Published by / KILBURN BROTHERS, - - Littleton, N. H.

Provenance

Ross Kelbaugh, Marriottsville, MD; NGA purchase, 2023.

Associated Names

Kelbaugh, Ross J.