Independence Square
Mr. Peale's Daguerrian Rooms
Peale Business Card, ca. 1840s
Manuscript Division (230A)
Gift of Mrs. Marion S. Carson, 1996
Peale Family Studio
South West Gate Leading into Independence
Square, Philadelphia
Approximate quarter-plate daguerreotype,
ca. 1845
Manuscript Division (230)
Gift of Mrs. Marion S. Carson, 1996
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Daguerreotypes of outdoor scenes were less popular than studio
portraits due to the technical difficulties of this early photographic
process. The daguerreotypist in the Peale Family Studios captured
Philadelphia's historic Independence Square, probably working from
a window in a building across the street. A broadside on the gate
post leading into the square advertises a demonstration of the effects
of laughing gas. Also shown is the Peale business card.
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