American Historical Ephemera & Photography

A quarter plate daguerreotype of three women housed in a pressed paper case (few spots to plate, great clarity, heavy spotting to mat, general wear to case), and a sixth plate daguerreotype showing one of the young women from the first image housed in a broken half pressed paper case (very minor tarnishing to edges, very light clouding to image, case with heavy damage). -- A pair of sixth plate daguerreotypes featuring the same woman holding a different child in each portrait, housed in identical bird motif pressed paper cases (tarnishing to edges, with spotting to plates and mats, general surface wear to cases). --  A trio of sixth plate ambrotypes of the same young toddler in different poses, each housed in a half pressed paper case (some spotting and crackling to images, general wear to mats and cases). -- And 4 other sixth plate daguerreotypes. -- Together, 11 cased images.