Daguerreotypes
Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:
Alex P. Gaines photograph collection
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.
Clyde Pruitt photograph collection
This collection consists of unidentified portraits. One female subject appears in three of the images.
Edith and Earl Cook family visual arts materials
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.
Elijah H. Mixon family photographs
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.
Ellet, Cabell, and Hopkins families photographs
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.
Harvey Dan Abrams photograph collection
This collection consists of three unrelated images.
Harvey T. Phillips photograph
This collection consists of one daguerreotype, taken approximately 1850, of Harvey T. Phillips while attending Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire.
Kate Thompson photograph collection
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.
Kellam and Malone photograph collection
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.
Kirkpatrick and Dorsey families photographs
This collection consists of identified and unidentified portraits of Kirkpatrick and Dorsey family members.
Loula Kendall Rogers Visual Arts Collection
Mary Jane Marquis photograph
This collection consists of one portrait of an unidentified male. Stamp on case "Scovill Mfg. Co."
Powell family photographs
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.
Robert Kellam photograph collection
This collection consists of seven portraits of identified and unidentified individuals.
Sale, Simmons, and Matheson family photographs
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.
Turner and Bevan family photographs
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.