VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS

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VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS

Portraits, 1850s and later

Album containing eleven salt prints and 107 albumen prints, various sizes; with a quantity of portrait albums, including six carte-de-visite albums, containing over four hundred photographs, albumen and gelatin silver prints, various sizes, various bindings (three disbound), four morocco embossed with various designs, decorative gilt clasps (parts missing), 8vo., oblong 8vo., and 4to.; with two quarter-plate ambrotype portraits, one in folding morocco case; one thermo-plastic Union case with horse design.

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The first album includes one light albumen print of Col. Julien Bombay Engineers seated next to a table with two stereoscopes, a Wheatstone reflecting stereoscope with landscape views; carte-de-visites include examples by James Robinson (Dublin), H.P. Robinson, C. Silvy and W & D Downey.

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