Quarter plate daguerreotype portrait. (Crisp detail, with a thin ring of tarnish and some spotting around edge where mat meets image; spotting to preserver; unsealed.) Housed in a full pressed paper case (surface wear throughout).

The firefighter is pictured seated, wearing his uniform including belt with letters "OREMA" visible (almost certainly "FOREMAN"), and holding his trumpet in one hand. His hat, bearing a large number "5" between the word "Foreman" above and initials "A.F.[?]" below, rests on a table next to him. His cheeks are lightly tinted pink.

Provenance: The Truesdale Family of Newbury, VT, by descent; acquired from Sam Truesdale by a previous owner, then purchased by consignor (handwritten note from a previous owner, dated 6 November 1978: "Your fireman's family name is TRUESDALE, an ancestor of Sam Truesdale of Newbury, Vt, from whom I bought him...As best I can learn, Fireman Truesdale served in a middle N.Y. State town, perhaps Utica...")