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![[Daguerreotype] A Dayton, Ohio Beauty: Sixth plate housed in a thermoplastic wall frame, the brass mat stamped "Barnaby, Dayton." The image depicts a half-smiling young woman wearing a satin dress and lacy cloves. S.B. Barnaby moved from M](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/5675/301233/160511512_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1694467161)
![[Tintype] Scarce Portrait of a Pawnee Brave: Anonymous sixth plate housed in a pressed leather case, probably late 1860s or early 1870s. The studio portrait depicts a young Pawnee man in a woman's cotton blouse of the type favored by the men of](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/5675/301233/160511461_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1694467161)

![[Tintype] Young Mother Breastfeeding: Early sixth-plate tinted tintype of a young mother breastfeeding her infant. Obviously taken at home, with the colored wallpaper. A very intimate image, as the mother has opened her gown. The baby's g](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/5675/301233/160511445_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1694756479)
![[Tintype] Scarce Portrait of an Osage Couple: Anonymous quarter-plate tintype displayed in a thermoplastic wall frame, ca. 1870s. An exceptionally clear portrait of an Osage couple, both in typical Osage garb -- he with front-seam beaded leggings](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/5675/301233/160511462_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1694467161)
![[Daguerreotype] Ethnic Women by Chase of Boston: Dramatic, theatrically-posed quarter plate of three women with applied color and gilding, the brass mat stamped "Chase" on the lower right. While Craig notes several daguerrieans with the surname Chas](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/5675/301233/160511495_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1694757723)
![[Contemporary Daguerreotype] Marc Gomme (Belgian, 1955- ): Vanitas/Memento Mori 2023. "Neither power nor wealth, but only the authority of science remains" Artist's Statement: In the past, the subjects that interested me were to be found in the marginal secto](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/5675/301233/160511460_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1694467161)
![[Daguerreotype] Masterpiece by Chase: Quarter-plate daguerreotype of a young girl, identified as Mary Hemsley, and her wax-head doll. The mat is stamped "Chase" in the lower right. Mary poses regally in a tufted chair, the fabric tinted a](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/5675/301233/160511444_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1694756544)
![[Daguerreotype] Identified African American Woman: Anonymous, ninth-plate portrait of a well-dressed young African American woman, ca. 1850-55. Pinned to the pad is a manuscript identifying the sitter as "Muriella Williams. Salisbury, (N? CT?)." Despi](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/5675/301233/160511490_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1694757652)
![[Daguerreotype] Summer Friends: Anonymous, sixth-plate daguerreotype housed in a thermoplastic wall frame. A fine, casually-posed image of two friends, each sporting a straw boater and summer whites. What may be a pen nib is visible](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/5675/301233/160511450_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1694467161)

![[Daguerreotype] Winter and Summer Portraits: Two anonymous, quarter-plate daguerreotypes of a young girl housed together in a single thermoplastic case. In one plate, she is dressed for winter in her fur-trimmed cape, bonnet and fur muff; in the](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/5675/301233/160511511_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1694758255)
![[Daguerreotype] A Serious Surveyor with a Vernier Compass: Anonymous sixth-plate daguerreotype of a surveyor and his Vernier Compass on the table, ca. 1850-55. He stares seriously into the camera, his arm resting besides his most important tool. NO RESERVE](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/5675/301233/160511477_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1694756085)


![[Daguerreotype] The Miner's Mule: Anonymous, half-plate daguerreotype of a group of men posed with a mule strapped with two large casks. The assembled group stands in front of a mostly-hidden storefront. Recently found in California,](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/5675/301233/160511473_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1694756161)
![[Daguerreotypes] Sisters, Including Magic Background: William Hardy Kent, London. Lot of two sixth-plate daguerreotypes of sisters with applied color. One depicts a young woman with a coral necklace and magic background treatment. The other, a fine studi](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/5675/301233/160511502_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1694467161)
![[PHOTOGRAPHY - CHINA]. Photograph album of Shanghai and int...: [PHOTOGRAPHY - CHINA]. Photograph album of Shanghai and interior river navigation scenes. [Shanghai, China: 1920s]. Oblong 8vo. Album approximately 205 x 130 mm. 20 gelatin silver print photographs mo](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/928/301544/160920925_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1694462960)
![[Daguerreotype] A New England Factory: Anonymous, half plate of a small factory, probably in New England. The prominent smokestack suggests a small ironworks. Provenance: This image first appeared on the market in Tom and Elinor Burnside's](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/5675/301233/160511497_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1694757351)
![[Daguerreotypes] Two Early Gurneys of the Same Man: Sixth-plate daguerreotypes by Jeremiah Gurney of New York, NY (active 1840-50s) in early leather cases, depicting the same gentleman. The first image shows a gentleman holding a sheaf of papers. He is](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/5675/301233/160511455_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1694756214)
![[Stereo Daguerreotype] A. R. Hallowell, First Republican Convention: Daguerreotype of a gentleman identified as Abner Rice Hallowell (1805-1879) of Bangor, Maine, in a rare folding daguerreotype viewing case invented and patented in 1855 by John Stull of Philadelphia.](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/5675/301233/160511498_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1694467161)
![[Daguerreotype] Southworth and Hawes Allegory: A sixth plate from the famed Feigenbaum cache, the two women posed by the masters. One looks down and away from the operator. Her companion half turns away and holds a potted plant, her eyes glancing](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/5675/301233/160511451_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1694757989)

News about Photography

CINCINNATI – On June 15-16, Hindman’s summer American Historical Ephemera & Photography auction saw passionate bidding for early photographs and material relating to America’s westward expansion. A half plate daguerreotype of three gold miners realized $37,800, five times its estimate. The image of the three men epitomizes the gold rush itself, as their somewhat haggard […]

PORTLAND, Maine – The Portland Museum of Art is showing Drawn to the Light: 50 Years of Photography at Maine Media Workshops + College through September 10.

WASHINGTON — The Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) has acquired a wide-ranging collection of photographs that represent African Americans from the medium’s early years to the near present — roughly the 1840s to the 1970s — from Dr. Robert Drapkin. The collection includes 404 objects, including daguerreotypes, ambrotypes and tintypes, as well as mixed paper prints. […]

PHOENIX – This spring, Phoenix Art Museum (PhxArt) presents Fashioning Self: The Photography of Everyday Expression, a new major photography exhibition organized by PhxArt and the Center for Creative Photography (CCP) in Tucson. It will be on view from March 8 through November 12 in the Doris and John Norton Gallery for the Center for Creative Photography at Phoenix Art […]