[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY]. 10 quarter plate daguerreotype portraits of parents with children, including:

Landscape-oriented portrait of a mother and father posed together with 7 children. (Significant spotting throughout, tarnishing to edges, and few scratches to plate; resealed.) Housed in a separated pressed paper case (fully separated at spine, significant wear throughout). -- A pair of landscape-oriented mirror-image portraits of the same family, one image likely a copy of the other. (Tarnishing to edges, spotting and clouding throughout, one with softer focus than the other; the original without a preserver, unsealed; the copy resealed.) Both housed in separated pressed paper cases (fully separated at spines, heavy wear throughout). -- And 7 other quarter plate portraits. -- Together, 10 daguerreotypes of parents with children.

19th-20th Century Historic Photography Collection of Dr. Joseph T. Pollock

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[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY]. 10 quarter plate daguerreotype portraits of parents with children, including:

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