Ambrotypes!

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Boy With A Rocking Horse, Ambrotype via Beverly | Flickr)

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[Three Seated Men with Arms Around Each Other] by Unknown, The Met’s Photos

Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Medium: Ambrotype

[chubachus]

Ambrotype portrait of the Bacon family, c. 1850′s/1860′s.

Source: Boston Public Library.

[the-met-art]

Young Man with a Concertina ambrotype, Musical Instruments

Medium: Ambrotype

Purchase, Frederick M. Lehman Bequest, 2005 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/504133

[tuesday-johnson]

ca. 1860s, [set of ambrotype portraits of a young lady; on the left with paper and paste, on the right, in a more traditional pose cradling something in her lap]

via Jeffrey Kraus Antique Photographics, Ambrotype Collection

[chubachus]

Ambrotype portrait of an unidentified sailor, c. 1850′s.

Source: Heritage Auctions.

[tuesday-johnson]

ca. 1860’s, [hand tinted ambrotype portrait of gentlemen, possibly a part of the Knights Templar fraternal order, wearing an unusual disc-covered jacket, and holding a sword, mask, and hat]

via Be-Hold, Fine Photographs

[rickinmar]

traveling ambrotype photographer. about 1860. ambrotypes were photographic images on glass with a black background that were popular just after daguerreotypes, but only for about 10 years.

[the-met-art]

Young Man with a Concertina ambrotype via Musical Instruments

Medium: Ambrotype

Purchase, Frederick M. Lehman Bequest, 2005 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/504133

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(via Stephen and Juliette Grove, Urbana, Ohio | via Ken | Flickr)

[nyhistory]

Happy Preservation Week!

Old photographs can be a challenge to preserve. This collection of cased photographs, which contains mostly ambrotypes, daguerreotypes, and tintypes, was recently rehoused to take better care of the images and make them more accesible. Each cased photograph now rests in a bed of fine cell foam within a standard-sized four flap enclosure.

Read more on the blog!

Unidentified Female Webb Family Member or Friend. ca 1850. cased ambrotype. New-York Historical Society.

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(via 245638632-O | ARABELLA MORTON. Born 1840 in Boston, Suffolk, MA via Light Catcher | Flickr)

[tuesday-johnson]

ca. 1868, [ambrotype portrait of a melancholy woman, identified in the case as Anna Millianz, with long hair and a cap]

via Christopher Wahren Fine Photographs, Skylight Gallery

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(via Ninth Plate Ambrotype | Frank Suvari | Flickr)

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[tuesday-johnson]

ca. 1860, [ambrotype portrait of a beautiful young woman wearing an exquisitely detailed dress, black lace gloves, and gold jewelry with applied gilding]

via Southern Methodist University, Central University Libraries, DeGolyer Library, Lawrence T. Jones III Texas photography collection

[sierralowedraws-blog]

Still in awe of this incredibly special birthday gift. She will have her own portrait soon. #ambrotype #1860 #reformdress #Ruby #ringlets #victorian #goldaccents #northamerican #victorianwoman #victoriangirl #redvelvet #portrait #oldphotograph #filigree #sierralowe #goldearrings #1860hairstyle #1860sfashion