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Daguerreotypes

 Subject
Subject Source: TGM II, Genre and physical characteristic terms

Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:

Alex P. Gaines photograph collection

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS18
Scope and Content

This collection consists or unidentified subjects. Some sitters appear in more than one image, but there is no known family history associated with the collection.

Dates: 1840-1870, undated

Clyde Pruitt photograph collection

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS28
Scope and Content

This collection consists of unidentified portraits. One female subject appears in three of the images.

Dates: approximately 1850-1900

Edith and Earl Cook family visual arts materials

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS199
Scope and Content

This collection contains original photographic prints, daguerreotypes, and negatives depicting members of Edith Cook's extended family. These materials include images of members of the Bell, Brockman, Cook, Collier, Dicks, Dolt, Hall, Harber, Ingram, Lowman, Owen, Potts, Thomas, Waldo, and Wilson families. There are also photographs of family residences in Georgia and Ohio and images related to Earl P. Cook, Jr.'s work with Southern Bell in Tennessee and Florida.

Dates: 1875-1989, undated

Elijah H. Mixon family photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS23
Scope and Content

This collection documents two generations of the Elijah H. Mixon family of Oxford, Georgia. The collection provides insight into the artisan class of 19th century Georgia.

Dates: approximately 1850-1870

Ellet, Cabell, and Hopkins families photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS29
Scope and Content

This collection consists of portraits of members of the Ellet, Cabell, and Hopkins families. The portrait of Mary Virginia Ellet Cabell (VIS 29.8) was produced by Marcus Aurelius Root (1808-1888), a well-known daguerreian, who worked primarily in Philadelphia and New York. Some of the albumen cards were produced by Linnie Condon, a late nineteenth century female photographer working in Atlanta, Georgia.

Dates: approximately 1850-1880, undated

Harvey Dan Abrams photograph collection

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS19
Scope and Content

This collection consists of three unrelated images.

Dates: 1850-1880, undated

Harvey T. Phillips photograph

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS22
Scope and Content

This collection consists of one daguerreotype, taken approximately 1850, of Harvey T. Phillips while attending Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire.

Dates: approximately 1850

Kate Thompson photograph collection

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS21
Scope and Content

This collection documents the lives of several members of the Thompson, Glover, Meriwether, and Jordan families of Madison, Georgia. Also included are photographs of individuals, probably friends and family members, many of whom are unidentified. The remaining images document buildings and houses in middle Georgia and include a scrapbook documenting land auctions sponsored by the Bowman Land Company, based in Charleston, West Virginia.

Dates: 1850-1965; Majority of material found within 1880 - 1920

Kellam and Malone photograph collection

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS30
Scope and Content

This collection consists of two daguerreotypes, presumably of the Shockley family, although this connection is not documented. One image is identified by attached note as Winfred Shockley's mother's uncle; the other is identified by attached note as: Auntie.

Dates: approximately 1840-1850, undated

Kirkpatrick and Dorsey families photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS27
Scope and Content

This collection consists of identified and unidentified portraits of Kirkpatrick and Dorsey family members.

Dates: 1850-1900, undated

Loula Kendall Rogers Visual Arts Collection

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS168
Scope and Contents of the Records This collection contains a daguerreotype, photographic print, and negative of Loula Kendall Rogers at the age of nine as well as an undated photographic print of her at an older age. In addition, the collection contains a sketch and a pastel on paper that Miss Kendall made of her family home, Bellwood Plantation, in the 1850s. A photographic print of the sketch of Bellwood Plantation is also included. The collection also contains a photographic reproduction of a c.1850 daguerreotype of the...
Dates: 1847-ca.1850, undated

Mary Jane Marquis photograph

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS15
Scope and Content

This collection consists of one portrait of an unidentified male. Stamp on case "Scovill Mfg. Co."

Dates: 1853

Powell family photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS8
Scope and Content

This collection contains fifteen images documenting three generations of the Powell family. George T. Powell and Ned T. Powell are also represented. The carte-de-visite and cabinet cards were produced by C. W. Motes and Kuhns, both post-Civil War Atlanta photographers.

Dates: approximately 1845-1955

Robert Kellam photograph collection

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS16
Scope and Content

This collection consists of seven portraits of identified and unidentified individuals.

Dates: 1850s-1860s

Sale, Simmons, and Matheson family photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS6
Scope and Content

This collection documents four generations of the Sale, Simmons, and Matheson families. Examination of the images indicates they were probably taken during the same photographic session with the exception of VIS 6.6.

Dates: 1852-1853

Turner and Bevan family photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS7
Scope and Content

The collection consists of cased images of unidentified individuals. Of particular interest are a daguerrotype of a daguerrotype; an image of a Union officer posed in front of an American flag; and a full-length post-mortem image of a child.

Dates: approximately 1850-1890