[Early Photography] Group of 42 Sixth Plate Daguerreotypes of Women
Publishers and subjects mostly unidentified (one with mat stamped "L.D. Bushwell", another with "Van Loan and Co.". All sixth plate size. Some without cases. Conditions vary. Including:
Seated pose of a young woman with dark hair leaning on a table. Tarnishing to margins of image; Seated pose of a woman with dark hair and crossed hands. Tarnishing to margins of image; Seated pose of woman with dark hair and crossed hands. Tarnishing to margins of image. Identified by a note as Harriet Whitmore, daughter of Colonel Enoch Whitmore. Her father, a native of Ashburham Massachusetts, was a known abolitionist and associated with the Underground Railroad.
And 39 others. 42 photographs total.
19th-20th Century Historic Photography Collection of Dr. Joseph T. Pollock
This lot is located in Philadelphia.