A large collection of forty-five daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes, and cabinet cards Primarily Philadelphia/Pennsylvania, mid-late 19th century

Depicting individual sitters, familial groups, children, and soldiers, many of whom are of Philadelphia/Pennsylvania lineage, presented in a variety of cases including embossed leather, gutta percha, and one mother-of-pearl inlaid papier-mâché example; the collection comprises twenty-one daguerreotypes, one of which is a family portrait, two are portraits of the same man wearing a tophat and without, one is a lady identified as "Eliza Grubb," and another is a lady identified as "Eliza Urner"; eighteen ambrotypes, one of which is a double portrait of a husband and wife, two are portraits of the same man, and one portrait of a lady with mat marked "Ambrotype by Gutekunst"; four tintypes; and two cabinet card photos stacked in one case, depicting a lady and man, the lady identified as "Elizabeth Price Baugh/ my grandmother" and marked "B. Frank Saylor's Art Studio/ No. 45 West King St.", the man marked "Photographed by Isaac S. Lachman, Main St. Opposite the Bank, Pottstown, PA."; accompanied by some displaced notes identifying some sitters as "John Coryell, husband of Sarah Anne Price Coryell, sister of Elizabeth Price Baugh, great-grandmother of Billy & Donny (?)", "Mrs. Elizabeth Grubb, Wife of Jesse Grubb...(E. Stauffer)," "Lydia Urner Price's sister or she herself," and "Owen Stover", and two empty cases.

(4 1/4 in. x 3 1/4 in. (largest daguerreotype, sight))

Provenance

From a Philadelphia collection.

Condition report:

in various states of disrepair, one ambrotype is loose and lacking a case; one daguerreotype is loose and includes a partial case (no lid) with detached border pieces; some cases broken at hinges; general wear to cases throughout commensurate with age and use; expected losses, particularly to some ambrotypes consistent with materiality; the two empty cases without photographs, the leather case missing the lid