This material all came from a Newport, Rhode Island mansion estate. The lot contains:

Sixth plate daguerreotype.
2 sixth plate ambrotypes.
4 ninth plate daguerreotypes (2 of them came in one case).
1 ninth plate ambrotype.
2 sixteenth plate daguerreotypes.
1 presentation document for Joseph Jermain Slocum.
Family album of Joseph Jermain Slocum, & Sallie L'Hommodieu (his wife). Album contains: 30 cabinet card photographs, 8 card mounted photos, and 2 cartes de visite (CDVs). 40 total.

Joseph Jermain Slocum was a descendant of Captain Myles Standish of the original Plymouth Colony. He married Sallie L'Hommodieu, and one of their sons was Herbert Jermain Slocum, who was in charge of the 13th Cavalry Regiment during the Battle of Columbus, New Mexico against Pancho Villa's army.

A) PRESENTATION DOCUMENT WITH PHOTOGRAPH OF JOSEPH JERMAIN SLOCUM.

Mentions Civil War service, membership in Society of Mayflower Descendants, Society of the Army of the Cumberland, The Society of Colonial Wars and more. 13¼ x 11⅜ inches. Photo alone is 5½ x 3½ inches.

B) CASED DAGUERREOTYPES & AMBROTYPES

MAN & WOMAN. Seller says the woman is Sallie L'Hommedieu. 2 oval ninth plate daguerreotypes, man and (hand-colored) woman. Case holding both is split so each rests in half case.

Ninth plate daguerreotype same woman with tinted flowers. Velvet case with lid severed. Ninth plate same man in velvet case. 1 sixteenth plate daguerreotype same man, 1 sixteenth plate daguerreotype possibly same man. Split full case and full case.

ALSO. Sixth plate ambrotype, man purportedly Joseph Slocum, Joseph Jermain's father. Split full case. Sixth plate Ambrotype woman with old ink note "Mrs. Slocum," presumably J.J.'s mother, attached to front of full case. Sixth plate daguerreotype of a painting of a woman. Full case. Ninth plate English ambrotype of a boy. Full case.

C) SLOCUM FAMILY PHOTO ALBUM

Includes cabinet card photo of Captain Joseph Jermain Slocum; a photo of 10 soldiers (which may include Slocum); a photo of a large formation of military on horseback; a photo of a seated soldier (probably Slocum), having his portrait painted by an artist. It also includes 4 cabinet photographs of women dressed in Japanese kimonos; other portraits of women, men, and children; and 3 cabinet photos of paintings. 40 photographs total.

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