50115.
Inside of the case of the image below. Found at Last! The Best Picture Glass.
Women-Cased Images
50115.
Sixth-plate daguerreotype of a smiling woman and young boy before a fine backdrop with great depth.
50117.
Quarter-plate daguerreotype by W. & F. Langenheim, Philadelphia of a pensive woman in three-quarter pose.
50127.
Half-plate daguerreotype of the Rutgers Female Institute, Class of 1848, located at that time on Madison Street, on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Vintage slip of paper attached to case mat reads “Carrie Hubbell’s Graduating Class at Rutgers–Carrie is in upper row–2nd from left hand with fan. Henrietta Piercy with long curls in right hand corner on floor.” For further information on this school: Rediscovering the “classical element” at NYC’s Rutgers Female Institute & College (1838-1895).
50131.
Pair of sixth-plate double-matted daguerreotypes in a mother-of-pearl case.
50133.
This and the image above are a pair of tinted daguerreotypes by C.H. Williamson of Brooklyn, NY of members of the same family. This image is a quarter-plate daguerreotype. Paper pinned to the case mat identifies the sitters as “Mrs. Mary E. Ostrom & daughter Eliza Edwards Ostrom (1855-1903).” The child, Eliza Edwards Ostrom, is one of the children pictured in the half-plate image above. Given the ages of the children in these images, I would guess that the images were made in 1860. All of these people are buried in Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn, NY. This image is housed in a full leather, push-button case.
50135.
Ninth-plate daguerreotype of group of 13 women.
50137.
Sixth-plate ambrotype by L.D. Johnson of two women with open books.
50139.
Full-plate ambrotype of couple posed at Niagara Falls.
50155.
Sixth-plate color pencil drawing identified as Sally Grimes drawn from life. Housed in a thermoplastic case (Berg 2-32, Vase of Fruit).
50155.
Sixth-plate color pencil drawing identified as Sally Grimes drawn from life. Housed in a thermoplastic case (Berg 2-32, Vase of Fruit).
50158.
Sixth-plate daguerreotype of a couple, each holding books. The woman may be a person of color.
50159.
Ninth-plate daguerreotype of a child in circular mat. Remove the mat and you find the mother. We value what they did not want us to see.
50160.
Sixth-plate daguerreotype of attractive woman posed before a primitive backdrop probably indicating the cramped quarters of an itinerant traveling photographer.
50164.
Sixth-plate daguerreotype by E.D. Palmer. The maker of this image was identified by an image with the same backdrop in the 2013 Daguerreian Annual in an article by Mark Koenigsberg on page 62. Palmer’s card is displayed in the image at the base of the table. This image is too dark to show the card. E.D. Palmer operated a gallery at the Old Museum in Utica, NY from Aug. 1842 through Jan. 1843 which dates this image to that period. It is possible that E.D. Palmer is Erastus Dow Palmer, the man who went on to become a renowned sculptor.
50166.
Quarter-plate daguerreotype by Thos. Hankins, Artist, Nashville, Tenn. of two attractive, affectionate women. The woman on the right wears a brooch with an image of a girl, probably a daguerreotype.
50170.
Tinted daguerreotype of a couple, probably an engagement photo, with engraved plate border within the inner outline of the mat.(D)
50171.
Honorable Thomas Kempshall and daughter Susan Kempshall. Thomas Kempshall was Mayor of Rochester, NY in 1837.
50172.
Outside of case and note with above image.