Daguerreotypes and Ambrotype
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- Part Of
- Jim and Dorothy Boyce fonds
- Scope & Content
- File consists of 4 daguerreotypes, 1 ambrotype and 1 print framed in a tooled leather case.
- Reference Code
- V79 / I / PT - 1 1 to 6
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Part Of
- Jim and Dorothy Boyce fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- M259 / V79
- Series
- I. Dorothy Boyce (nee Whiteman)
- Sous-Fonds
- V79
- Accession Number
- 6790, 7363
- Reference Code
- V79 / I / PT - 1 1 to 6
- Physical Description
- 6 photographs: b&w.
- History / Biographical
- See fonds level description for biographical history.
- Scope & Content
- File consists of 4 daguerreotypes, 1 ambrotype and 1 print framed in a tooled leather case.
- Subject Access
- Personal and Professional Life
- Language
- English
- Title Source
- Title based on storage file.
- Content Details
- 1- Daguerreotype Two young women, seated, in dresses with white lace collars and white lace at their wrists. Leather tooled case with floral ornamentation. Red silk interior lining. Gold frame around edges of case and around image. Spine is broken. Note with item: “Oct. 11/96 asked Dorothy Boyce about daguerreotype: accn 6790 depicts Two sisters: Marion and Gertie Peatman, Brantford, ON. (later Marion Grenney or Grenny-she married Brantford Postmaster. They had three children: one Dorothy Boyce’s mother Nina L. Whiteman. The photographer is reputed to have won a prize with this photograph at Chicago exhibition. He arranged that the sisters wear similar dresses. DJB.” 15 x 12 cm. 2- Daguerreotype Two men and two women seated, men and women holding hands. Leather tooled case with thistle ornamentation. Green velvet interior lining. Gold frame around edges of case and around image. Case 8.25 x 9.25. Image 7.25 x 5.75. 3- Ambrotype Woman and man seated, hands clasped in their laps. Leather tooled case with thistle ornamentation. Red velvet interior lining. Gold frame around edges of case and around image. There is a hole in the body of the woman 0.5 cm wide and 1 cm long. Case 8.25 x 9.25. Image 7 x 5.25. 4- Daguerreotype Seated man looking to camera. Leather tooled case with floral and bird ornamentation. Red silk interior lining. Spine is broken. Gold circular frame around image. Case 8 x 9.5. Image 6 cm diameter. 5- Daguerreotype Seated man looking to camera. Leather tooled case with floral ornamentation. Red silk interior lining. Spine is broken. Gold circular frame around image. Case 8 x 9.25. Image 6 x 7.75. 6- Portrait of woman in three quarter profile. Leather tooled case. Red velvet interior lining. Gold frame around image. Case 4.5 x 5.25. Image 2.25 x 2.25.
- Processing Status
- Processed
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