Daguerreotype
     Subject 
  
        Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
      
        Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Collection of Backus family papers
     Collection  — Box 1
  
    
      Identifier: 2024-044
    
      Content Description
        
    This collection consists of papers of the Backus family and includes genealogy hand written and typed, and the "Memorables of the Montgomeries" manuscript. It also includes a daguerreotype of Gerrit Fitzhugh Backus and his mother. the collection also contains a copy of "Sonnets of War and Peace and Other Poems" by Thomas Rochester Shepard, 1929. The book is signed by Thomas Rochester Shepard to Mr. and Mrs. Backus.
        Dates: 
      1866-1881, 1929
    
  
      Found in: 
  
  Local History & Genealogy Division