Mary P. Turpin Booth and Ann[e] Elizabeth Turpin Allen
Augustus Washington, American, 1820/21 - 1875
about 1850
Daguerreotype with case
Plate: 3 1/4 × 2 3/4 in. (8.3 × 7 cm)
Overall: 4 5/16 in. (11 cm)
Case: 3 11/16 × 3 1/8 in. (9.3 × 8 cm)
Overall: 11/16 in. (1.7 cm)
Case: 3 11/16 × 6 3/8 in. (9.4 × 16.2 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Andrew E. Lewin, Class of 1981
2005.61.1
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Photograph
Research Area
Photograph
Not on view
Inscriptions
Brass mat, stamped, lower left: A. WASHINGTON; stamped, lower right: 136 MAIN ST. / HARTFORD; case, embossed, on reverse [in oval]: WASHINGTON / 136 / GALLERY / MAIN ST. / HARTFORD; accompanying slip of paper, inscribed, in graphite: L. / Mary P. / Booth; R. / Anne / Elizabeth J. / Turpin [squeezed in ] / Allen
Course History
ARTH 48.08, The Photographic Medium, Allan Doyle, Winter 2019
SART 29, Photography I, Christina Seely, Spring 2019
ARTH 48.02, History of Photography, Katie Hornstein, Winter 2020
HIST 7.32, Civil War Photographs, Robert Bonner, Winter 2022
WRIT 5.05, Photographic Representations, Amanda Wetsel, Fall 2022
WRIT 5.06, Photographic Representations, Amanda Wetsel, Fall 2022
Writing 5.24, Photographic Representations, Amanda Wetsel, Fall 2023
Writing 5.25, Photographic Representations, Amanda Wetsel, Fall 2023
English 30.01, African and African American Studies 34.01, Early Black American LIterature, Michael Chaney, Winter 2024
Writing 5.32, Photographic Representations, Amanda Wetsel, Winter 2024
Writing 5.33, Photographic Representations, Amanda Wetsel, Winter 2024
Art History 48.02, Histories of Photography, Katie Hornstein, Spring 2024
African and African American Studies 7.01, Picturing African American History, Michael Chaney, Spring 2024
Exhibition History
American Works on Paper to 1950: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Friends and Owen Robertson Cheatham Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 22-December 9, 2007.
Augustus Washington, African American Daguerreotypist, Gene Y. Kim Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 2006.
Publication History
Barbara J. MacAdam, Recent Alumni Gifts Represent Dartmouth Artists Augustus Washington and Paul Sample, Hood Museum of Art Quarterly, No. 16, Summer 2006, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College.
Annual Report 2005-6, Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2006, ill. p.12.
Provenance
Unidentified Ohio dealer found the image in Painesville, Lake County, Ohio, along with other images including some identified as Eli Booth and a couple more identified as Mary Booth (said to have come from an old hotel); (the 1870 census for Mauch Chuck, Pennsylvania lists a Hotel Keeper Elias Booth and his wife Mary P. Booth, born Connecticut and at the corresponding age for Mary P. Turpin in 1860 Census); sold to Walt Plunkett, Tuscon, Arizona (dealer); sold via e-bay to Andrew Lewin, Scarsdale, New York, 2005; given to present collection, 2005.
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