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Daguerreotypes and Ambrotypes

Description: The collection consists of five daguerreotypes, two ambrotypes, and a cartes-de-visite photograph album featuring Grace Nicholson's ancestors and extended family members. Two loose photographs are housed in Box 1. Some of the family members depicted in the collection include John Blackie, Elizabeth Blackie, Kate Clawson, James Blackie, William Nicholson, Mary Nicholson, and James B. Nicholson. There is also a baby picture of Grace Nicholson. All of the individuals in the photographs are identified through written captions. Some of the daguerreotypes were taken by Rees & Co. and the remaining photographers are unknown.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1850-1872
Call number: photCL 748
Provenance: Gift of Peggy A. Bright, September 2025
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Grace Nicholson family photographs

Visual Materials

The collection consists of five daguerreotypes, two ambrotypes, and a cartes-de-visite photograph album featuring Grace Nicholson's ancestors and extended family members. Two loose photographs are housed in Box 1. Some of the family members depicted in the collection include John Blackie, Elizabeth Blackie, Kate Clawson, James Blackie, William Nicholson, Mary Nicholson, and James B. Nicholson. There is also a baby picture of Grace Nicholson. All of the individuals in the photographs are identified through written captions. Some of the daguerreotypes were taken by Rees & Co. and the remaining photographers are unknown.

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Photograph album

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Modern ambrotypes and daguerreotypes

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A group of five daguerreotypes and ambrotypes made by artists born in the mid-20th century. Two daguerreotypes by Robert Shlaer (b. 1943) depict a New Mexico landscape, 1992, and a group portrait of 201 Huntington Library employees posed in the institution's Japanese Garden, 2003. Barret Oliver (b. 1973) made three ambrotypes in 2012 of the mausoleum of Henry E. Huntington and Arabella Huntington on the grounds of the Huntington Library.

Series 3

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Ambrotypes (photographs) and/or daguerreotypes

Manuscripts

The Barrows and Weyse families papers include diaries, personal and business correspondence, journals, legal documents, photographs, printed ephemera, and genealogical research material.

mssBarrowsWeyse

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Matthew B. Brady Daguerreotypes from the War Department Collections

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Cyanotype copies of Brady daguerreotypes of male sitters, many unidentified, which Johnston made from the originals in the War Department collections. There are identified portraits of Henry Clay, George Custis, John M. Clayton, William L. Dayton, and Winfield Scott.

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Binh Danh daguerreotypes of Yosemite National Park

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Two contemporary daguerreotypes of views in Yosemite National Park by artist Binh Danh. The first image, Yosemite Falls, April 15, 2012, is a traditional landscape view, 6.5 x 8.5 inches, matted and framed, 11.5 x 13 inches, and signed on the verso. The second image, Tunnel View parking lot, 2017, is 5 x 7 inches, matted and signed on the verso; this image emphasizes part of the parking lot and various tourists at a Yosemite viewpoint. The daguerreotypes were made using a 19th-century photographic processing technique that produces a photograph directly on a silver-coated copper plate.

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Daguerreotypes and Ambrotypes

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