Daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, and other cased photographs, 1840-1870.
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Daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, and other cased photographs, 1840-1870.
This collection includes daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes, and other cased photographs. Approximately half of the images are identified although the inventory contains brief descriptions of unidentified images by age, gender, or clothing style. Many of the daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, and tintypes have full cases, while others may only have half-cases. The collection includes portraits of children, Civil War soldiers, men and women (some at the time of their marriages), a funeral image, a Civil War regiment, a factory, several buidings and a pet dog. Families represented by the images include: Andreuss, Baker, Baldwin, Cairns, Canfield, Clark, Coddington, Coe, Comer, Congar, Dickerson, Dodd, Douglas, Drake, Furman, Halsey, Halsted, Holden, Lee, Marsh, Mulford, Munn, Landau, Ross, Sayre, Smalley, Symington, Van Wagenen, and others. Individuals represented include: Mrs. Nathaniel Camp, John Willard Coddington, Rev. John Ford, Gen. N.H. Halsted, Rev. Matthew H. Henderson of Trinity Church in Newark, Jenny Lind, Henry K. McDowell, Dr. S.C. Marsh, Isaac Mulford, Gov. William S. Pennington, General Jose Paer, and General Winfield Scott.
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318 items.
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