Figure 92: Manuel Cotes
Maker: Silas (or Samuel) Holmes (American, ? – 1886)
Sitter/Subject: Manuel Cotes
Genre: studio portrait
Process: daguerreotype
Dimensions: ninth plate
Date: 1850-59, probably early 1850’s
Collection: Greg French
Notes: stamped in brass mat: “Holmes, 289 Broadway”; inscribed in period pencil in case: “Manuel Cotes, Essex, Conn.” Holmes operated at the 289 Broadway address in New York City from 1850 to 1859. (Source: Craig’s Daguerreian Registry, vol. 2, p. 277.)