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Bookstore Daguerreotype in frame York Pa.

Fabulous 1/6 plate daguerreotype shows a corner building with a bookstore downstairs. An advertising banner waves beneath the roof. A woman stands at an open window. There is no awning on the framework, perhaps to allow sunlight to fall on the store window and the people posed behind the water trough for horses, to make a clearer daguerreotype. Some prints can be clearly seen hung in the store window, to the right of the door. There is something printed above each store window. AFTER I LISTED THIS I WAS CONTACTED BY A PREVIOUS OWNER OF THE DAGUERREOTYPE, WHO IDENTIFIED THE PLACE AS YORK, PA., NOT PHILADELPHIA AS FIRST PRESENTED. A late stereo half accompanies the daguerreotype, showing the same corner (now in "correct" orientation.) It's still a "Books Stationary & Fancy Goods" store. The end board of the awning reads No. 11, "Deiningers." A modern pen inscription on the back of the mount dated May 1878, reads "The house on corner was across from Christ's Lutheran Church -- or next to it." [That Church in York is at 29 S. George Street.] "We three girls were born there & that was Papa's book store... " A moder color Polaroid shows it now as a tanning salon. The daguerreotype is in an early wooden frame, with modern wallpaper covering the back. There is a very faint almost transparent spotting with a few very trivial wipes at the very bottom, and two tiny "digs," one above the awning near the left edge. The general appearance is rich, clear, fine. [3+]

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