Daguerreotype of James Buchanan. Gold frame with blue velvet. Note in typescript on back: Daguerreotype presented by President Buchanan to J. Henry Brown - 1851.
Provenance
Photographs from the James Buchanan Foundation institutional archives.
Alexander Hood, father of Mary Bernarda Hood married to Adam Ross Black (wedding announcement from newspaper in case) Note pasted to top of case: "Alexander Hood, 'Fat Boy' of Lancaster Court, one of two Alexanders" .
Oval picture in rectangular frame with velvet backing. Buchanan facing almost front, dark suite, white tie. Back of frame 'Daguerreotype presented to President Buchanan by J. Henry Brown-1851'