Leather photograph album of CDV portraits
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1870
name: label: Photograph by
content: J. P. Ball & Son, American, 1845 - 1904
label: Photograph by
content: James Presley Ball, American, 1825 - 1904
label: Photograph by
content: J. F. Ryder, American, 1826 - 1904
label: Photograph by
content: Rudolph Goebel, German American, 1835 - 1923
label: Photograph by
content: W. T. Crouch, American
label: Photograph by
content: J. M. LeClear, American, 1837 - 1914
label: Photograph by
content: A. J. Fox, American
label: Photograph by
content: E. L. Graves
label: Photograph by
content: H. A. Seymour
label: Photograph by
content: William LaTour, American
label: Photograph by
content: L. W. Upton, American
label: Published by
content: Samuel Bowles, American, born 1865
label: Subject of
content: Eunice Eliza-Mills Wetherbee, American, 1824 - 1914
label: Subject of
content: Unidentified Man or Men
label: Subject of
content: Unidentified Woman or Women
label: Subject of
content: Unidentified Child or Children
notes: label: Description
content: A leather photograph album containing 20 photographic images, including sixteen carte-de-visite and four tintypes, some of which are paper-mounted. The portraits capture men and women of various ages, either standing or seated in interior spaces. The interior of the leather photograph album features a large brown decorative ink imprint marked: [Photograph / ALBUM / Samuel Bowles & Co. / PUBLISHERS, SPRINGFIELD / Mass. / M. Bradley, lith. / Springfield, Mass.]. At the top of the imprinted page are graphite inscriptions: [ph. 11-4259CMISF-11]. Identified photographers of the album photographs include: JP Ball & Company; William T. Crouch; Belleville, Illinois; Fischer, St. Louis, Missouri; A.J. Fox, St. Louis, Missouri; R. Goebel, St. Charles, Missouri; LaTour, Chicago, Illinois; LeClear's, Jackson, Michigan; J.F. Ryder, Cleveland, Ohio; and H.A. Seymour, Jackson, Michigan.
place: label: Place captured
content: United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Men
label: Topic
content: Photography
label: Topic
content: Women
setName: label: See more items in
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Photographs and Still Images
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2020.10.3
objectType: label: Type
content: cartes-de-visite
label: Type
content: tintypes
label: Type
content: albumen prints
label: Type
content: photograph albums
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Public domain
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: album: leather and metal;
label: Medium
content: photographs: albumen and silver on paper and collodion and silver on iron with lacquer
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 6 1/8 × 5 1/8 × 1 3/16 in. (15.6 × 13 × 3 cm)