The Ministry of Song
SOLD March 2008 |
Sixth plate daguerreotype of cheerful bearded man holding a book which appears to be "Taylor's Sacred M[instrel or,] American Church Music Book," a collection of musically adapted religious songs published ca. 1847 by Virgil Corydon Taylor. With light applied tinting in red, housed in a full case.
(Close-up image has been laterally corrected to render it right-reading.)
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