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Below is an daguerreotype from my collection for your enjoyment.
Next update notification will go out September 14, 2024.
Below is an daguerreotype from my collection for your enjoyment.
Machinist John Gilman Hapgood 1/6 plate
daguerreotype of a machinist displaying his tools behind him and a piece of metal
he has made. ½ case Identified on the back of the image. Dated 1848 in the
image under the mat. (Born July 6, 1822 in Stow, Massachusetts, Married April 5,
1850, moved to Minnesota where Indians frequented the locality many times
alarming his family. The Sioux massacre
of 1862 caused him to return to Massachusetts.
He was an excellent machinist and secured permanent employment at Boston)
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