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

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