#quarter-plate

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Daguerreotype portrait of members of a literary society in Groveland, Massachusetts, c. 1844.

Source: Sotheby’s.

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

Source: Boston Public Library.

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Daguerreotype portrait of a man posing with a pile of books and a flute, 1857.

Source: Sotheby’s.

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Tintype portrait of Josiah Wright and others posing on a wagon in front of Wright’s mobile photography studio somewhere in California, 1862.

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Hand-colored ambrotype portrait of Lillie Hitchcock Coit and Grace Riddle, c. 1850′s.

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Hand-colored daguerreotype portrait of Lafayette Guild, c. 1850's. He later served as the Chief Surgeon and Medical Director for the Army of Northern Virginia during the Civil War.

Source.

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Daguerreotype of a patent medicine peddler selling an item to a customer, c. 1850.

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American daguerreotype of two shopkeepers posing behind a counter in a dry goods store, location unkown, c. 1850.