American Historical Ephemera and Photography

Sixth plate seated portrait of a woman wearing a large square-shaped brooch and a shawl around her shoulders, holding open a book in her lap, and posing next to what appears to be an open music box. (Tarnishing to edges, some wipes and surface scratches; regazed and resealed 1993.) Housed in a pressed paper case (surface wear). -- Pair of sixth plate portraits, one featuring a man and one featuring a woman, housed together in a quarter plate-size case with double oval mat. (Minor tarnishing to edge, spotting to mat.) Housed in a pressed paper case (velvet pad not present, surface wear). -- Sixth plate portrait of a young woman holding what appears to be a cased image in her lap with both hands, having an ornate decorative basket sitting on the table next to her. (Abundant scratching, occasional spotting, discoloration to mat, no preserver present; reglazed and resealed 2021.) Housed in a half leatherette case (surface wear, loss). -- Pair of ninth plate portraits of women housed together in a sixth plate-size case with double oval mat. (Minor tarnishing, occasional spotting; resealed.) Housed in a leatherette case (surface wear). -- And 6 others, all sixth plate examples. Conditions and housings vary. -- Together, 12 daguerreotype portraits.