Antique Photo Albums with Tintypes, Cabinet Cards and Cartes de Visite

Item Details

Artist unknown
Untitled
Unsigned, smallest album marked with each subject’s name to page
Portrait
Albums, cabinet cards, cartes de visite

A collection of three antique albums with tintypes, albumen prints, and gelatin-silvet print photographs. The smallest album is full and contains silver print and tintype cartes de visite dating to the mid-19th century and includes a Civil War era military portrait with the name of each subject written on the album page below the image. The cloth-covered album is almost full and contains silver print and tintype cartes de visite and cabinet cards dating from the mid-19th to the early 20th century. The chromolithographic-print-covered album contains two gelatin-silver print photographs dating to the early 20th century.

Condition

- discoloration and marks to some photographs particularly to cloth-covered album; fading to some albumen prints; some wear and discoloration to pages of all albums; tears and some wear to cover of smallest album; significant wear and abrasions to cover and some loose photos of cloth-covered album; binding torn loose to covers and some pages of chromolithographic-print-covered album; half of back cover attached to mounting stand; significant wear and discoloraition to cover and stand.

Dimensions

- measures cloth covered album; smallest album measures 5.5" W x 3.0" H.

Item #

18BOS018-125