On View
Not on viewSally Cummings
Date1800s
Terms
- Daguerreotypes
- Brass
- Photograph
- Daguerreotype
- Velvet
- Leather
- Concord (Massachusetts)
Dimensions12.06 × 9.52 × 1.9 cm (4 3/4 × 3 3/4 × 3/4 in.)
MarkingsLabel inside case, behind daguerreotype: "Sally Cummings".
Credit LineGift of Cummings E. Davis (1886)
Object numberPI1407
DescriptionImage of a middle-aged woman, with hair parted in middle, wearing a black silk dress with pleats, and a bonnet with lappets. Framed in a pressed leather case, with oval brass frame. Burgundy-colored velvet lining, embossed floral design. Brass hooks for closure.
From Thoreau's Journal, Oct. 23, 1857: "Sal Cummings, a thorough country-woman, conversant with nuts and berries, calls the soapwort gentian 'blue vengeance,' mistaking the word. A masculine wild-eyed woman of the fields. Somebody has her daguerreotype. When Mr. -------- was to lecture on Kansas, she was she 'she wa'n't going to hear him. None of her folks had ever has any.'"
From Thoreau's Journal, Oct. 23, 1857: "Sal Cummings, a thorough country-woman, conversant with nuts and berries, calls the soapwort gentian 'blue vengeance,' mistaking the word. A masculine wild-eyed woman of the fields. Somebody has her daguerreotype. When Mr. -------- was to lecture on Kansas, she was she 'she wa'n't going to hear him. None of her folks had ever has any.'"
Collections
- Henry David Thoreau Collection
- Photographs
Object number: COS0075.0059.1
Object number: B2026.5.1
Object number: B2026.5.83
Object number: B2026.5.84
Object number: PH1045
B.F. Smith & Son
December 1864