Untitled (Portrait of a Standing Circus Performer)

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Artist: Jesse Harrison Whitehurst / American, 1819–1875
Date: 1855
Medium: Daguerreotype
Dimensions: Plate, approx: 10.1 × 7.6 cm (4 × 3 in.); Open case: 12 × 18.8 × 0.8 cm (4 3/4 × 7 7/16 × 3/8 in.); Case: 11.9 × 9.6 × 1.8 cm (4 11/16 × 3 13/16 × 3/4 in.); Image, sight: 8.4 × 6 cm (3 5/16 × 2 3/8 in.)
Type: Photograph
Classification: portrait
Style: 19th century
Place: United States
Department: Photography and Media
Credit line: The W. Bruce and Delaney H. Lundberg Collection, purchased with funds provided by The Leonian Charitable Trust
Accession no.: 2019.575

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Untitled (Portrait of Standing Two Men Holding Tools)
Jesse Harrison Whitehurst
1875 · Photograph
Museum collection · via the Art Institute of ChicagoAT-00009121

Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.