Quarter plate Civil War period Daguerreotype of Country Home with Subjects

  

Quarter plate Daguerreotype of Country Home with Subjects. Very rare and original, 1860's Civil War Period Photograph - Quarter plate Daguerreotype of a country home with subjects posed outside! We have collected Daguerreotypes and civil war artifacts for almost 40 years and have experienced about 90% of all Daguerreotypes, Ambrotypes and Tintypes are portraits of people. It is Extremely RARE to discover a Daguerreotype photo of a mid 19th century home with subjects in front are even more Rare! This particular gem includes two women on the porch and what appears a Black Gentleman with a top hat walking toward the white picket fence gate.

An Amazing & Scarce piece of History! Size: a Rare Large Quarter Plate, about 3.25x 4.25. Note: We also just acquired a most Rare and Desirable "Occupational" Ambrotype of a Fiddle Player.

Quarter plate daguerreotype of a country home with subjects posed outside. Some scratching to plate including scratch near upper right, with tarnishing to edges. Housed in a full pressed paper case (spotting to mat, surface wear with finish loss to case). Among the posed subjects is a man, possibly an African American, wearing a top hat near the gate of the picket fence in front of the house.

Two women rest on the porch behind him. This item is in the category "Collectibles\Militaria\Civil War (1861-65)\Original Period Items\Photographs". The seller is "cvtreasures" and is located in this country: US. This item can be shipped to United States, China, Japan, Brazil, Canada, United Kingdom, Denmark, Finland, Australia, France, Ireland, Netherlands, New Zealand, Bermuda.