Cased photographs
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Use to describe photographs, usually daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, or tintypes, mounted in sturdy, boxlike cases.
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Stanley B. Burns, M.D., historic medical photography collection
Collection
Call Number: Ms Coll 76
Abstract:
The collection includes photographic plates and prints collected by Stanley B. Burns, M.D., that document medical practice and medical practitioners circa 1840 through the 1970s. The collection includes items created using multiple photographic techniques and supports including daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes, lantern slides, photographic negatives, cartes de visite, cabinet photographs (cabinet cards), stereoscopic photographs, panoramic photographs, picture postcards, gelatin silver...
Dates:
Circa 1840-1979
Julia Driver collection of women in photography
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 690
Abstract:
This collection consists chiefly of 1559 photographs collected by Julia Driver that represent work by over 550 commercial women photographers, 1845-1940. The collection also includes thirty examples of cased photographs, which consist of ambrotypes and daguerreotypes, 1845-1862. The collection is rich in card photographs, especially cartes-de-visite and cabinet photographs created during the second half of the nineteenth century, as well as some other photographic print formats, items of...
Dates:
1845-1940, bulk 1855-1900
Robert B. Fisher photograph collection and papers
Collection
Call Number: WA MSS S-2823
Abstract:
This collection chiefly consists of photographs collected by Robert B. Fisher, but also includes his subject files and a small quantity of writings related to the history of photography, 1840-1998.
Dates:
1840-1998
Carl Mautz collection of Peter Britt photographs
Collection
Call Number: WA Photos 865
Abstract:
171 carte-de-visite photographs; 53 cabinet photographs; 61 tintypes, including 1 cased double portrait; 1 cased ambrotype; 20 stereographs; 10 mounted prints; 4 photographic postcards; 5 photographs; and printed material by or relating to photographer Peter Britt, circa 1850s-circa 2000. Collected by Carl Mautz. Photographs are chiefly studio portraits of men, women, and children, including Peter Britt, Amalia Grobb Britt, Amalia Britt, and Emil Britt. Stereographs in the collection depict...
Dates:
circa 1850s-circa 2000, bulk circa 1850s-circa 1880s
Peter Palmquist Cased Photographs Collection
Collection
Call Number: WA Photos 402
Abstract:
This collection consists of daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes, and collodion processes primarily mounted in contemporary decorative cases, collected by Peter Palmquist to document photographers, photographic processes and presentation techniques in the United States, especially in California, and in Great Britain, circa 1844-1899.
Dates:
circa 1844-1899