[Album of portraits]
Bound volume
Unidentified
Maker
[Album of portraits]
ca. 1855
Bound volume with salted paper, albumen silver, and collodion silver prints
Overall: 9 1/8 × 7 5/8 × 7/16 in. (23.1 × 19.3 × 1.1 cm)
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer
DescriptionAlbum containing 42 prints by an early amateur photographer (British ?). Unidentified portraits, both of individuals, small and large groups. Sitters appear to be members of 3 generations of a family and 2 dogs. Included are a few landscapes and images with the feel of a "genre" scene. There are a few later albumen photographs and one gelatin or collodion POP print that is a copy of a daguerreotype. Images are attached to high quality paper and bound in a notebook with marbled covers and leather spine and corners. Two photographs (1981.1263.0085 and 0086) are detached from the album.
Please note: The cataloger numbered the album pages beginning with the front flyleaf; database records have been created for only those pages with text printed on or photographs adhered to them.
Please note: The cataloger numbered the album pages beginning with the front flyleaf; database records have been created for only those pages with text printed on or photographs adhered to them.
Inscriptions Inscribed in pencil on last page recto, BC: 1/10 12 S [illegible]
