Search Results
- IDNO:
- 039908
- Title:
- Cased Portrait of Young Man, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1860
- Description:
- Cased ambrotype photograph of an unidentified young man. The emulsion of this fragile image is beginning to fall off the plate. Ambrotypes were popular in the mid-1800's
- IDNO:
- 040095
- Title:
- Cased Portrait of William G. Brown Sr. and Daniel D. T. Farnsworth, Western Virginia (West Virginia)
- Date:
- ca. 1860
- Description:
- Ambrotype image of two prominent political leaders, active in the formation and government of West Virginia. The reverse side of the image has a political advertisement stating, "People's Ticket; For Congress, Wm G. Brown. Senate, Dan D. T. Farnsworth." Brown did serve in the United States House of Representatives before and during the Civil War. Farnsworth was never elected to the Senate, however he did served in the West Virginia Legislature for several terms and as Interim-Governor in 1869.
- IDNO:
- 040243
- Title:
- Cased Ambrotype Portrait of Richard Powell
- Date:
- ca. 1860
- Description:
- Information included with the image, " Richard Powell, U. B. Minister, Nephew - Grandmother Lewis."
- IDNO:
- 040244
- Title:
- Cased Portrait of Aunt Mary McNab
- Date:
- ca. 1860
- Description:
- Ambrotype of Mary McNab wearing the fashion and hair style of the 1860's.