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 THE DAGUERREOTYPE: AN ARCHIVE OF SOURCE TEXTS, GRAPHICS, AND EPHEMERA


  The research archive of Gary W. Ewer regarding the history of the daguerreotype

On this day (October 4) in the year 1853, the following item appeared in the "Boston Daily Evening Transcript": - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ARRESTED BY MEANS OF A DAGUERREOTYPE. A few days since a man named William Allen, who had been boarding at Market Hotel, Portland street, left without paying his board. The landlord on examining his trunk, found a number of coining tools and his miniature. The latter was given to a police officer, who succeeded by means of it in arresting him, and he was committed for trial. He is suspected of being engaged with a gang of counterfeiters. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 10-04-96

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