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Lot 578
Sale 1345 - American Historical Ephemera and Photography Online
Lots Open
Jun 19, 2024
Lots Close
Jul 2, 2024
Timed Online / Cincinnati
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Estimate
$400 -
600
Price Realized
$699
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Lot Description
[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY]. 28 sixth plate daguerreotypes featuring adolescents and teenagers.
Seated portrait of an adolescent girl wearing a lace collar and posed before a painted backdrop. (Some tarnishing to edges, focus a bit soft; unsealed.) Housed under mat, glass, and preserver only, no case. -- Seated portrait of a young lady holding what appears to be a melodion in her lap. She also wears an ornate necklace. (Heavy tarnishing and chemical deterioration/clouding/spotting to plate, no preserver.) Housed in a pressed paper case. -- Seated portrait of a young man posed before a rather blurred painted backdrop. (Heavy tarnishing to edges, focus soft, dust particles, no preserver.) Housed in a half pressed paper case. -- And 25 others. Some without cases. Conditions vary. -- Together, 28 sixth plate daguerreotypes featuring adolescent and teenaged males and females.
19th-20th Century Historic Photography Collection of Dr. Joseph T. Pollock
This lot is located in Cincinnati.






