[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY]. 10 sixth plate daguerreotypes featuring groups of people posed with books and cased images.

Portrait of two young women, likely sisters, posed together wearing fingerless lace gloves and holding a cased image with gold highlighting (tarnishing to edges). Housed in a half case. -- Portrait of 3 young female subjects seated in a row, holding hands and posing with a large book opened before them (tarnishing to edges, few spots, scratches, and punctures to plate). Housed in a half case. -- Portrait of a grandmother and granddaughter posed affectionately, the grandmother holding a cased image or a book on her lap (some tarnishing and clouding to image, oxidation to mat). Housed in a half case. -- And 7 others. Conditions vary. Some housed in half cases. -- Together, 10 sixth plate daguerreotypes of groups of subjects with cased images and books.

This lot is located in Cincinnati.