Identification and Preservation of Photographs

Kristin Eshelman, Curator of Multimedia Collections

Compiled for research purposes only from the collections at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center. Reproduction is not permitted.

William Pratchett, 1850s, daguerreotype. From the Margaret Waring Buck Papers (MSS 1997-0034)

William Pratchett, 1850s, daguerreotype. From the Margaret Waring Buck Papers (MSS 1997-0034)

*Note lock of hair attached to interior of case.

Great Grandmother Waring, 1850s, ambrotype. From the Margaret Waring Buck Papers (MSS 1997-0034)

*Note negative image visible as a result of scratched lacquer backing.

George Washington Peck Leavenworth, ca. 1858, ambrotype. From the Leavenworth Family Papers (MSS20030089)

*Note black velvet backing.

Cartes-de-visite albums, 1860s. From the Margaret Waring Buck Papers (MSS 1997-0034)

*Note images of Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant.

From the Margaret Waring Buck Papers (MSS 1997-0034)

Set of lantern slides of Paris produced by TH McAllister, 1890s. From the Magic Lantern Collection