(MEN IN LOVE)
A collection of more than 100 photographs of men posing affectionately together. A range of compelling images featuring men together, many in pairs posing seated together (occasionally even on each other's lap) or standing closely, as well as snapshots of groups or pairs intimately smiling for the camera. The group includes one daguerreotype (quarter plate), one ambrotype (sixth plate), eight tintypes (quarter plates), one cabinet card (printing-out paper print), one carte-de-visite (albumen print), and three mounted prints (two printing-out and one silver), as well as 59 real photo postcards, one printed postcard, and 29 snapshots, the snapshots measuring 28.6x35 to 120.6x171.4 mm; 1x1 to 4¾x6¾ inches, and the reverse, the postcards mostly 136.5x88.9 mm; 5x3½ inches, and slightly smaller, the daguerreotype, ambrotype and two tintypes in half leather cases and two tintypes in paper mounts, some of the photographs with notations in ink on recto or verso. Circa 1856-1960.