Beschreibung:

Lot includes album of cabinet cards and eight cased images. Album with green velvet cover featuring a heart-shaped mirror, with space for 30 cabinet cards and 12 cartes de visite, of which 19 cabinet card spaces are occupied with family portraits from Akron, Ohio studios. Velvet worn, and some album pages torn or loose. Cased images include: Fine sixth plate daguerreotype of a gentleman, housed in a full mother-of-pearl case. Near-excellent. Sixth plate daguerreotype of a gentleman, housed in a full pressed paper case. Solarization ring at mat edges, else very good. Sixth plate ambrotype of a bearded man, housed in a full Union case featuring a couple playing chess. Ambrotype and case very good. Sixth plate ambrotype of a woman, housed in a pressed paper case. Very good. Ninth plate ambrotype of a teenage boy, housed in a full geometric Union case. Ambrotype and Union case very good. Ninth plate ambrotype of a gentleman, housed in a full pressed paper case. Ambrotype with minor craquelure-like pattern and in need of re-lacquering. Sixth plate tintype of three young children, housed in a half Union case featuring strawberry vines. Good-to-very good. Ninth plate tintype of an older couple, housed in a pressed paper case separated at the spine. Very good. Provenance: Jim and Pat Gifford Collection of Political Americana