Unidentified photographer
1840-1856
Entrance to Independence Square, Philadelphia

Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate (approx.)
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Reproduction Number: LC-USZC4-11119 (color film copy transparency pre-conservation), Call Number: DAG no. 1400
 
Label from back: Daguerreotypes are "mirror reflections" and thus show the ac… picture in reverse. This picture is the South West entrance to Independence Square - The men shown are James Peale, Jr., son of the noted artist of same name and nephew of Charles Willson Peale. The other Augustus Runyon Peale. Photographed Sept. 10, 1956 by Dillon.
 
LL/59861