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Cased ninth plate daguerreotype portrait of Edward Payson Fitch, a native of Massachusetts, who arrived in Kansas Territory in 1854 as a member of the third group of settlers sponsored by the New England Emigrant Aid Company. On August 21, 1863, he was killed in his house by one of William Quantrill's raiders during their infamous attack on Lawrence. The daguerreotype was made by Clark's Daguerreotype Rooms of No. 59 Court Street, Boston, Massachusetts.
Creator: Clark's Daguerreotype Rooms, No. 59 Court Street, Boston.
Date: Between 1853 and 1863
Item Number: 90297
Call Number: B Fitch Edward *1
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 90297
Collections - Photograph
Date - 1854-1860 - 1860
Military - Wars - Civil War - Quantrill's raid
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph - Daguerreotypes
Places - Cities and towns - Lawrence
Places - Counties - Douglas
Thematic Time Period - Bleeding Kansas, 1854 - 1861
Type of Material - Photographs - Format - Daguerreotypes
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