Description:
Daguerreotype in a two-part hinged case with a typewritten label: "John R. Stebbins and Sarah Abbey Stebbins". The picture shows a young couple in a photographer's studio, both of them seated and reading. The picture is framed in a stamped brass oval under glass; the case lid has a molded grape cluster in the center. The label under the picture reads: "LITTLEFIELD, PARSONS & CO.,/ - MANUFACTURERS OF -/ Daguerreotype Cases./ L., P. & Co.,/ Are the sole Proprieter and the only/ legal manufacturers of/ UNION CASES,/ with the/ EMBRACING RIVETED HINGE./ Patented/ Oct. 14, 1856, & April 21, 1857." There is no mention in George Sheldon's "History of Deerfield" of a John and Sarah Stebbins contemporary with the date of the picture; John Stebbins might be related to John Stebbins (1771-?) of Deerfield who married Sarah Sanderson, and moved first to Conway and then to Ontario County in New York in 1814. The other daguerreotype given by the donor may be their son, Barton, HD 65.246.
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