American Historical Ephemera & Photography

Quarter plate daguerreotype portrait of a young couple. N.p.: n.p., n.d. (Tarnishing to edges, some fading, and light spotting.) Housed in a pressed paper case (fully separated at spine, with surface wear throughout). -- Quarter plate daguerreotype of two women, likely mother and daughter. N.p.: n.p., n.d. (Tarnishing to edges, with spotting throughout.) Housed in a leatherette (fully separated at spine, with surface wear throughout). -- A pair of sixth plate tintypes featuring the same man wearing the same smirking facial expressing, captured from different angles. N.p.: n.p., n.d. (Darkening to images, with some crackling to emulsion and spotting to image in octagonal case; both unsealed.) Housed in a regular pressed paper case and an octagonal union case with geometric design (paper case fully separated at spine, both with heavy soiling and some surface wear throughout). -- A sixth plate daguerreotype portrait of a young woman with her arm resting on a book and holding what appears to be a cased image in her hand. N.p.: n.p., n.d. (Tarnishing to edges, with heavy clouding and large spots to image.) Housed under glass only, in original seal. Loose mat). -- And 14 others, including one quarter plate daguerreotype, 5 sixth plate daguerreotypes, 3 sixth plate ambrotypes, one ninth plate daguerreotype, 3 ninth plate ambrotypes, and one ninth plate tintype.