American Historical Ephemera & Photography

A loose sixth plate tintype of a pair of postwar sailors, one seated and one standing, posed before a painted backdrop. (Few areas of abrasion/image loss, some denting and surface scratching, spotting, with wear to edges.) Possibly civilian. -- Quarter plate tintype seated portrait of a USN sailor. (Crackling throughout image, darkening to majority of image, spotting to preserver; unsealed.) Housed in a Union case (significant cracking/separation to front cover, wear and loosening to velvet pad). -- Loose sixth plate tintype of a late nineteenth-century sailor, probably a crew member of the SS Adelaide, a civilian packet steamer out of Long Branch, NJ that sank after a collision in 1880. (Heavy denting and creasing to image, with surface scratching and heavy clipping and wear to edges and corners; verso with adhesive.) -- And 4 others including one sixth plate ambrotype and 3 loose sixth plate tintypes. -- Together, 7 portraits of civilian and military sailors.