[Unidentified boys, formerly identified as Judge David Terry with his cousin Creaner.]

ca. 1855

Cased photographs and related images from The Bancroft Library pictorial collections, circa 1845-circa 1870

BANC PIC 1905.16242:086--CASE

Image

1 photograph : daguerreotype ; half plate, visible image 11.2 x 8.2 cm.

The Bancroft Library

Identified by collector Zelda Mackay as "Judge [David S.] Terry, as a boy, who killed Senator Broderick in a duel." However, Judge Terry (1823-1889) was an adult by 1850. Subjects may, perhaps, be members of his family of the next generation.
<physfacet label="Image Package Note">Original component parts: plate, mat, cover glass, preserver. Plate: faces slightly hand colored. Mat: rectangular (double elliptical). Preserver: decorative.</physfacet>;;;<physfacet label="Container or Case Note">Type: case. Motif: variant of The Chess Players (Rinhart no. 41). Material: leather (pigskin) over wood. Dimensions: 15.3 x 12.2 cm. Pad: red velvet. Notes: Eichemeyer, H.A., Feb. 27, 1855. Notes: spine label - 387 (from prior owner).</physfacet>;;;<physfacet label="Marks, Inscriptions and Accompanying Material">Inscribed in case well: 1/2 [ ] Bound $9. Blind stamped on case exterior(verso): H.A. EICKMEYER. PATENTED FEB. 27, 1855. Accompanying news clipping (1945) about the death of Judge Terry's nephew David, at age 60.</physfacet>;;;

Provenance"Zelda Mackay notes that she acquired this image ""from Stockton descendants"" [of Judge David Terry, presumably.]"

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