- Subject
- Photography
- Item type
- Object
- Provenance
- Purchased from R. S. Clay in 1944. Part of the Clay Collection.
- Primary inscriptions
- Printed label in case behind right-hand photograph referring to union case patents of 1854, 1855, and 1856.
- Object type
- Photograph
- Dimensions
- Height: 108mm Width: 82mm
- Inventory No
- 13164
- Accession Number
- 1944-1
Description
The case contains two photographs, both collodion positives on glass (ambrotypes).
Left: a man, seated three-quarter length, facing front, his left arm resting on a small round table.
Right: his wife and child, the woman seated three-quarter length, facing front, her left arm resting on the same table and her right arm on the boy's shoulder, the boy standing to left.
Both are hand tinted, including gold. Enclosed in gilt frames and heavily decorated oval matts. Union case with relief design front and back. Two hinges and one pressure clasp. Printed label inside the right-hand recess of the case.
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