Beschreibung:

Lot of 4 albums and over 60 loose CDVs, some with identified sitters. Brown leather double album, 8.75 x 6.25 in., containing an assortment of 67 CDVs, tintypes, and snapshots featuring members of the Pleuthner-Luber families of Buffalo, New York, ca last quarter of the nineteenth century. The Pleuthners had emigrated from Germany and settled in Buffalo, where male descendants pursued entrepreneurial endeavors, including Adam Pleuthner, a watchmaker, and Martin Pleuthner, a grocer. The brothers appear in this album as both young boys and adult men, and Adam's wife, Lotta, and daughter, Florence, are also pictured. Caroline Pleuthner married John Adam Luber, a Civil War veteran from Maryland. Two young girls, Elizabeth and Lily Lauer, presumably Caroline's nieces, are shown wearing dresses made by their aunt. Brown leather album, 4.75 x 5.875 in., with "Album" embossed in gold along spine. Contains forty-three CDVs, primarily credited to photographers from Massachusetts, ca 1864-1874. Portraits of women comprise the majority, though other photographs note feature a young girl with her arms wrapped around her mother's shoulders, a mustachioed gentleman posed casually before a mountainous studio backdrop, and three women and three men in formal attire, possibly for a wedding. Many with "C.S.A." inscribed on verso, along with the date. Top clasp absent. Brown leather album, 5.5 x 7 in., with embossed floral designs to cover and "Military Photographs" along spine. Cover with unusual locket-style opening, housing a tintype of a young woman under elliptical glass. Inside pages contain "Index of Portraits," which indicates that "George R. Pendleton" originally occupied the cover at one time; remaining index entries blank. Contains one tintype and thirty-one CDVs, both from life and after illustrated portraits, with many credited to Connecticut-based photographers, in cities including Hartford, Daysville, and Danielsonville. Some pages separated from spine. Green leather album, 4.875 x 6.125 in., with "Album" embossed in gold along spine. Wear to corners and tearing to spine, some of which has been repaired with tape. Houses fifty CDVs and one tintype, many of which were taken by photographers active in New York. Photographs of men, women, and children, some of whom are presented in outerwear. Highlights include a portrait of couple holding hands and a woman posed with her two daughters. Loose CDVs credited variously to photographers in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Vermont.