The Matlack and Bishop Family Collection: Cecilia Bishop Worrall

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Cecilia Bishop Worrall: daguerreotype circa 1850 "Aunt Cecilia Bishop Worrall"
Cecilia Bishop Worrall

daguerreotype circa 1850 "Aunt Cecilia Bishop Worrall"

Name/Title

The Matlack and Bishop Family Collection: Cecilia Bishop Worrall

Entry/Object ID

2023.009.07

Tags

Daguerreotype, Photograph

Scope and Content

Angela B. Matlack, wife of Wilson M. Matlack and daughter of Joaquim Bishop, Sugartown’s platinum refiner, purchased The Garrett House, sometime after William Garrett’s death. Angela Matlack shopped at Historic Sugartown’s General Store, appearing frequently in Hillery John’s Day Books in the early 1880s. Angela’s husband, Wilson, was a Civil War veteran and served as Captain of the Washington Troop of Chester County, the local unit of the National Guard of Pennsylvania in 1874.

Context

Daguerreotype of Cecilia Bishop Worrall

Collection

The Matlack and Bishop Family Collection

Cataloged By

Susannah Thurlow

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Tertiary Object Term

Daguerreotype

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Positive, Direct

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Photograph

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Graphic Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Daguerreotypes

Create Date

March 30, 2023

Update Date

May 4, 2023