The Josephine Cobb collection of daguerreotypes
Publisher: Josephine Cobb
Published: 1986
Place of publication: Cape Elizabeth, Me.?
Language: eng
Subjects: Photograph collections; Catalogs; Daguerreotype; Harvard College Library. Department of Printing and Graphic Arts
Other titles: Cobb collection of daguerreotypes; Collection of daguerreotypes
Notes: Catalog of the portion (ca. 245 items) of the daguerreotype collection formed by Josephine Cobb (1906-1986), acquired at auction by Harrison D. Horblit in 1986 and now in the Dept. of Printing and Graphic Arts, Harvard College Library. The images not acquired by Horblit are not listed in this catalog.

Compiled by Josephine Cobb.

Title from manuscript label on front cover of v. 1.

Consists of black & white copy prints of the daguerreotypes, mounted 1 per leaf, with typescript description mounted beneath. Some of the descriptions in v. 6 are in manuscript. A few entries lack either descriptions or copy prints.

Most of the daguerreotypes illustrated are single or group portraits, and virtually all were made in the United States.

Bound in stiff blue paper report binders, gummed paper labels on front covers.