Mar 27, 2014 - Sale 2342

Sale 2342 - Lot 534

Price Realized: $ 2,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(PHOTOGRAPHY--EARLY AND CASED IMAGES.) WARREN, GEORGE KENDALL. Theodore 'Candy Sam' Ferris. Oval albumen photograph, 5-1/4 x 3-7/8 inches, on a large cardstock mount (10-3/4 x 13-5/8 inches), with a gilt rule border around the image. [New Haven, CT, circa 1862]
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A fine image of Theodore 'Candy Sam' Ferris, a famous Yale character. Ferris did some gardening and odd jobs around the campus, but was known as 'Candy Sam' for the sweets he sold to students This is the earliest of three known photographs of the subject taken by George Kendall Warren, a daguerreotypist and photographer,