- JH Whitehurst
- "Copy" of antebellum portrait with bonnet
- daguerreotype, sixth plate
One of a matching pair of sixth plate "copy" dags: Each daguerreotype is unique, so to make a copy, it was necessary to photograph the original, making a second "copy."
Whitehurst had galleries in Richmond, Lynchburg, and Petersburg as well as DC, NY and Baltimore.
- Subject Matter: woman, hand-painted
- Collections: Cased Images: Daguereotypes, Ambrotypes and Small Tintypes, Consideration for movement, Picturing the South: Photographs of the South or by Southern Photographers
