| Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gros Bridge and Boats on the Thames 1851 Daguerreotype, label Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Département des Estampes et de la Photographie Collection Georges Sirot, Rés. Eg8-279, Identifiant: ark:/12148/btv1b69034910 LL/67703 The back of this Daguerreotype has a hand written label that states that the view was taken in September 1851. A similar label is on the verso of a Gros Daguerreotype of the interior of the Crystal Palace. Both Daguerreotypes are in the BNF in Paris and were part of the Georges Sirot [collection] and donated in 1955.
(Pers. email, Anthony Hamber to Alan Griffiths, 4 December 2013)
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