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Daguerreotype of Nora Perry,
the writer, and Sarah Elizabeth Almy
Half Plate Daguerreotype
of Llamas
Kent Bicknell Collection of John Plumbe Jr.
Sold to the Library of Congress
Tinted Cobbler and His Wares, Daguerreotype
8 men at Sikes Store Eden, New York Daguerreotype
Ambrotype Of A Triple Armed Civil War Soldier
Boston Bass Ball Players, 1878 Cabinet Card Photo Includes Harry Wright and George Wright
Half Plate Daguerreotype Featuring "Carpentering & Long-Tom Making" Sign.
Large Ambrotype of an English Lady
Holding a Cat, with a Dog at her Feet.
Cased Tintype Soldier Playing Guitar & Lady Friend.
"... the attached ambrotype shows 2
brothers named Keast from Penzance, Cornwall,
England. They went to the gold diggings in
California in the 1850's and returned to
England around 1860..."
Quarter plate daguerreotype of Lajos Kossuth (1802 - 1894), who was a Hungarian lawyer, journalist, politician and Governor-President of the Kingdom of Hungary during the
revolution of 1848-49.
The Bengal, North Point, San Francisco Stereoview by Carleton Watkins
"I Sell The Shadow To Support
The Substance," Sojourner Truth CDV.
Albumen photograph of Abraham Lincoln
by Alexander Hesler. Featured in the
book, *Lincoln in Photographs:
An Album of Every Known Pose*,
by Charles
Hamilton and Lloyd Ostendorf.
An excerpt from the caption in the book:
"Wrote Lincoln's law partner, William H. Herndon:
'There is the peculiar
curve of the lower lip,
the lone mole on the right cheek, and a pose of
the
head so essentially Lincolnian; no other
artist has ever caught it.'"
Pair of Cartes de Visite (CDVs) feature earliest known photographs
of the Ku Klux Klan (1867 & 1871).
Period ink, on reverse of each, describes law enforcement's role in
apprehending them.
Highly unusual pair of crisp quarter plate sized INDUSTRIAL SCENE DAGUERREOTYPES. Note that this is the Industrial Revolution in a rural setting.
Amherst College Class of 1864 CDV Album
Postmortem of an infant from above.
White on White Daguerreotype
Blue Sky Illuminated Daguerreotype
Civil War Sergeant with Pistol and Sword
Cased Tintype
Cabinet Photograph of a Dentist advertising his services. His crown, sash, and cuffs
are covered with various dental implements and tools.
Tintypes taken during George B. Cooley's purported 31 day fast, to cure
rheumatism, in 1901.
1870 Photography Exhibition with Exhibits By E. & H.T. Anthony & Scovill Manufacturing Co.
Five Stereoviews
Featuring one of the largest and most exhaustive photographic displays in history.
At one end of the exhibit hall are banners:
ELEVATE YOUR ART AND IT WILL ELEVATE YOU. PHOTOGRAPHY 1870. AMERICA. EUROPE.
Signs in the E. & H.T. ANTHONY exhibit:
E. & H.T. ANTHONY & co. 591 BROADWAY NEW YORK.
ANTHONY'S DEPARTMENT
STEREOSCOPES VIEWS AND ALBUMS
SAMPLES OF PHOTOGRAPHIC CHEMICALS
CELEBRATED DALLMEYER LENSES
GRAPHOSCOPES... ORDERS RECEIVED... HOLIDAY TRADE...
There is also a SCOVILL MANUFACTURING CO. exhibit sign:
SCOVILL MANUFACTURING CO. 4 BEEKMAN ST. 36 PARK ROW. NEW YORK.
King of Siam Antique Photograph
Lincoln Sign Painter Carte De Visite
Quarter plate daguerreotype of 3 Gold Miners exhibiting
Harriet Tubman Cabinet Card Photograph
Blacksmith Daguerreotype
2 cricket players, one with a 'Field Captain' belt. Also featured are the bat, ball and wickets. Quarter Plate Ambrotype
Matilda Gage and her daughter, Helen. Daguerreotype
Suffragette, activist, aboltionist, author, freethinker. and mother-in-law of L. Frank Baum's, "the Wizard of Oz"
Suffragette, activist, aboltionist, author, freethinker. and mother-in-law of L. Frank Baum's, "the Wizard of Oz"
