[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY]. 5 Union cases containing images of couples.

Quarter plate portrait of a younger couple. (Heavy tarnishing and spotting, with a few significant scratches.) Housed in a figural Union case, General Marions Invitation to Dinner, [Berg 1-23]. -- Sixth plate ambrotype portrait of a younger couple posed before a painted window, the woman holding a book in one hand and her husband's leg with the other. (Some fading and loss to image, few spots/imperfections.) Housed in a geometric Union case. -- And 3 other Union cases containing one sixth plate daguerreotype of a couple, one sixth plate ambrotype of a couple, and 2 sixth plate ambrotypes, one featuring a man and the other a woman, housed in the same case. Cases include 2 figural examples, Profile of Learned Man [S, 1-81] and The Amorous Lion [VR, 1-82] (non-functioning closure); and a geometric example.

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[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY]. 5 Union cases containing images of couples.

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