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This photograph is an ambrotype of an older woman circa 1850s. The ambrotype is in a brass matte with decorative engravings. Ambrotypes were developed in the early 1850s and were considerably less expensive than their predecessor, the daguerreotype,…

This photograph is a tinted ambrotype, which is typically kept in a case such as this one to protect the image from sunlight and heat. Ambrotypes appeared in the early 1850s and became very popular, displacing the early daguerreotype. The well-worn…

This ambrotype image of a young woman is housed in a small gold decorative frame. The young woman is wearing a printed dress which closes in the center front with a brooch at her collar. Her hair, parted down the middle, has been smoothed over her…

"This photograph is of Eleanor Dearborn's grandmother and mother as a child." The child's dress and part of the mother's dress that can be seen help to date this ambrotype to the 1860s. In the photo, the girl sits on her mother's lap wearing…

The bridal party was photographed outside of the bride’s home in Usquepaugh, Rhode Island on June 8, 1904. The bride and her attendants wear dresses in the S-shape silhouette with narrow waists confined by corsets. Their bodices have a monobosom…

The sitter, whose photograph was taken at Schultze located at 297-299 Fulton Street in Brooklyn, wears what is probably a matching three-piece suit in a tattersall plaid (the trousers are not visible). The silhouette is barrel-chested, which was…

The child is wearing a white eyelet dress, black stockings, and black side-button boots. It is difficult to determine the gender of the child since both boys and girls dressed alike in short dresses until they were approximately five years old at…

The photograph was taken at the studio of H. A. Lesure, 207 Main Street, Danbury, Connecticut. The little boy wears a short two-piece dress, which indicates that he is preschool age. For most of the nineteenth century, boys under five years of age…

This photograph was taken in the Westerly, Rhode Island studio of T. S. Oldershaw & Co. “Artists.” The man wore a morning coat and striped trousers for his photograph, which was an appropriate outfit for a formal daytime event such as a wedding.…

This cabinet card is identified as coming from the studio of “Smith, East Saginaw, Michigan.” According to David Tinder’s Directory of Early Michigan Photographers, a William L. Smith ran a successful photography studio in East Saginaw from 1883 to…