View Down Brattle Street from the Southworth & Hawes Studio at 5 1/2 Tremont Row, Boston. Artist: Albert Sands Southworth (American, West Fairlee, Vermont 1811-1894 Charlestown, Massachusetts); Josiah Johnson Hawes (American, Wayland, Massachusetts 1808-1901 Crawford Notch, New Hampshire). Dimensions: 21.6 x 16.5 cm (8 1/2 x 6 1/2 in.). Photography Studio: Southworth and Hawes (American, active 1843-1863). Date: 1855.The Boston partnership of Southworth & Hawes was the leading photography studio in the United States from 1845 to 1862. While they produced portrait daguerreotypes for the most illustrious personalities of the day, they also made a number of exterior views that count among the major American artworks from the 1850s. This scene from their studio window is one in a series of three daguerreotypes that document activity around the Brattle Street Church during the funeral procession of Abbott Lawrence, a local philanthropist and businessman. As evidenced by the visible signa