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Culture:American
Title:daguerreotype: Edward Wells Colton and Susan M. Heard
Date Made:ca. 1861
Type:Photograph
Materials:glass; silvered copper; pressed paper case; gilded brass
Place Made:United States; Massachusetts; Northfield
Measurements:overall: 2 5/8 in x 2 in; 6.6675 cm x 5.08 cm
Accession Number:  HD 2012.9
Credit Line:Gift of Roger M. and Maria C. Rogers
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield

Description:
Small, full-length double daguerreotype of Edward Wells Colton (1831-1887) and his wife Susan Maxwell Heard (1837-1874), possibly taken on their wedding day in 1861. The image is an excellent depiction of a couple from western Massachusetts, affording a full length view of their likeness and clothing styles. The daguerreotype process was developed in 1839 by a French man named Louis Daguerre (b.1789). Their popularity as a photography form in the United States lasted until the late 1850s, when the faster and less expensive wet collodian process took over.

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