Still Image Vigilance Committee parade, San Francisco, circa 1855 Daguerrotype. This early photographic view of San Francisco shows Brig. Gen. John Stoneacre Ellis's First Regiment, with soldiers standing at attention for parade, ships in the harbor in the background, stores lining a street with signs visible, and onlookers standing by. View Item
Still Image New York Crystal Palace, 1854 Daguerreotype. The New York Crystal Palace was built to house the New York Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations (1853-1854), America's first world's fair, on the site of present-day Bryant Park. This is an interior view of the south nave of the Crystal Palace in its second year of exhibition, with statues, windows, stairs and other structural elements of the building. View Item
Still Image Caesar, an enslaved man, 1851 Daguerreotype. Portrait of an African-American male figure, three quarters-length, front view, holding a staff or a shovel (?) in his right hand, wearing a white collar, dark foulard, and checked waistcoat. A note taped to the back of the case identifies the sitter and sitter's history: "born a slave of Van R. Nicoll, son of William, in 1737 at Bethlehem, N.Y., where he died in 1852, the last slave to die in the North." View Item