[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY]. 21 cased images of men, women, and children, incl. children with props.

Ninth plate daguerreotype portrait of a young girl wearing an off-the-shoulder dress and holding a doll in one arm. (Some scratching, spotting, dust specs and other imperfections to plate; original seals.) Housed in a Union case (soiling, nicking/chipping). -- Pair of ninth plate ambrotypes including one portrait of a young man with long hair and having what appears to be an ornately handled tool or utensil - possibly a paint brush? - tucked into his shirt. (Scratches with loss to plate.) Housed together in a Union case (chipping). -- Sixth plate ambrotype portrait of a man's and a woman's head arranged on the illustrated bodies of a gentleman and a ballerina. (Image with some spots of loss and surface imperfections; unsealed.) Housed in a half pressed paper case (heavy wear, loss throughout). -- Sixth plate ambrotype portrait of a debonaire gentleman with bushy sideburns and long hair, posed with his arm on a table also surmounted by an interesting potted plant. (Image with a few surface imperfections; unsealed.) Housed in a fully separated pressed paper case (split at spine, surface wear). -- And 16 others, including a quarter plate daguerreoytpe, 4 sixth plate daguerreotypes, 2 ninth plate daguerreotypes, 3 sixth plate ambrotypes, 3 ninth plate ambrotypes, one sixteenth plate ambrotype, one sixth plate loose tintype, and one ninth plate tintype. Conditions and housings vary. -- Together, 21 images of men, women, and children.

[With:] Hand-colored albumen photograph of a little lad wearing military-style uniform with cap in hand, 12 1/ x 10 in. (sight), matted and framed, 22 1/4 x 18 in.