An early daguereotype of a country road, fence line and home - along with a telling handwritten note - sold at auction this week for $62,500 in, where else? - New York.
The proud new owners are Billy and Jennifer Frist of Nashville. “It’s a very unique, historically significant daguerreotype,” Mr. Frist, who has been collecting photos since 1993 and is a nephew of Bill Frist, the Tennessee Republican and former Senate majority leader, told the New York Times.
The picture, believed to date from October 1848 or earlier, shows a white house on a hill with a white picket fence, next to what is believed to be the old Bloomingdale Road, the continuation of Broadway, in what is now the Upper West Side.
