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GUSN-286431
This is small leather-bound album containing "gem" tintype portraits and a small number of gem-sized albumen prints. The portraits are mostly undated and unidentified as to subject or photographer. The presence of children, babies, pets and older people indicates that these are probably family albums.
portraits
children (people by age group)
families
elderly
photograph albums
tintypes (prints)
albumen prints
1 portrait album
PC009
Photograph albums collection
PC009.068B
ca. 1860s-1890s
Gift of the Misses Cummings.
photograph albums
tintypes (prints)
albumen prints
Cummings family
pets
Item
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