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Lemuel Shaw

Lemuel Shaw Daguerreotype
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Daguerreotype by Southworth & Hawes, circa 1853

Visible image 20 cm x 15 cm (whole plate); under glass 24 cm x 19 cm

From the Daguerreotype collection
Photo. 1.368L


This daguerreotype depicts Lemuel Shaw (1781-1861), lawyer and Chief Justice of the Mass. Supreme Judicial Court.