IMPORTANT 19TH & 20TH CENTURY PHOTOGRAPHS
by Swann Auction Galleries
Platinum House 273 lots with images
2004
Lot 1: HILL, DAVID OCTAVIUS (1802-1870)/ADAMSON, ROBERT (1821-1848)
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Description: Man posing with a book. Salted paper print from calotype negative, 6 1/4x4 3/4 inches (15.9x12.1 cm.), with notations, in pencil, and a Royal Scottish Academy monogram hand stamp on mount recto. Circa 1845
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Lot 9: (CASED IMAGES)
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Description: Hand-tinted sixth-plate tintype of an African-American woman with an American flag pinned to her breast; unsealed; full leather case. 1860s
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Lot 10: (CASED IMAGES)
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Description: Sixth-plate ambrotype of a young Union soldier posing with a bayonet and in full uniform; in full leather case. 1860s
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Lot 11: (CASED IMAGES)
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Description: Quarter-plate daguerreotype portrait of a mother and 2 daughters, all elaborately dressed; resealed; full leather case. 1850s
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Lot 12: (CASED IMAGES)
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Description: Sixth-plate daguerreotype post mortem of a young woman; resealed; in a half case. 1850s
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