Portraits from the first 100 years of photography
The portrait above is an ambrotype, or photograph on glass, by an unknown photographer. Ambrotypes were introduced in the United States in the early 1850s and remained popular for about a decade. They were simpler and less costly to produce than daguerreotypes. Eventually they were replaced by tintypes and albumen paper prints (such as the... Continue Reading →
This carte-de-visite came to me from England (Northamptonshire), but it has nothing written on it to identify the sitter or photographer. The photo (print) was cut into an oval shape and glued onto a paper mount with an oval frame design already printed on it. Such cartes were generally made after someone had died, as... Continue Reading →
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