American Historical Ephemera & Photography

Portrait of a mother and two children, posed affectionately together. [New York]: Plumbe, n.d. (Tarnishing to edges; resealed 1995, no preserver present.) Housed in a pressed paper case. Mat stamped for Plumbe, paper label in case attributes its manufacture to "Plumbe National Daguerrian [sic] Depot, New-York." -- Portrait of a woman resting her arm on the Bible. (Tarnishing to edges, some light spotting; resealed 2005.) Housed in a half leatherette case. -- And 7 others, all oversized quarter plate daguerreotypes, most without full cases. -- Together, 9 oversized quarter plate daguerreotype portraits, possibly European.