Portrait identified as “Mr. Capwell, a kind man who tended a garden.” Unidentified photographer, American, ca. 1847-1850. Sixth plate daguerreotype. Wadsworth Atheneum collection [2992×2992] [OC]
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Portrait identified as “Mr. Capwell, a kind man who tended a garden.” Unidentified photographer, American, ca. 1847-1850. Sixth plate daguerreotype. Wadsworth Atheneum collection [2992×2992] [OC]
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Wadsworth Atheneum, 2025.14.2
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[Middle row, fifth from the left:
Unidentified photographer
American
The Kind Gardener, c.1847
Sixth Plate Daguerreotype
Gift of Frank B. Gay, 1933.X.1.2
Nothing is yet known of about the sensitive looking young man in this daguerreotype aside from an early note passed down with it that identifies him as Mr. Capwell, a “kind man who tended a garden.”]