Ambrotypes
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Hibben family papers
Collection
Identifier: L069
Scope and Contents
This collection includes correspondence, invitations and calling cards, accounts, stamps, newspaper clippings, membership cards, legal documents, and other papers, as well as photographs, negatives, lantern slides, artwork, textiles, and realia from members of the Hibben and Ketcham families in Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, New York, and Europe ranging from circa 1840 to 1937 regarding family, military, legal, and social matters. Much of the early correspondence belonged to Sarah...
Dates:
circa 1840-1937
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
/
Hibben family papers
Indiana Civil War and pioneer photograph collection
Collection
Identifier: P056
Scope and Contents
This collection includes tintype, daguerreotype, ambrotype, and carte de visite portrait photographs of numerous individuals from Indiana ranging from circa 1840 to 1876 regarding Union soldiers who served during the U.S. Civil War and a few men and women who settled in the state during the mid-19th century. There is also a large indistinguishable daguerreotype photograph of a possible Sunday School celebration on July 4, 1850 at Col. James Blake's home on the northwest corner of Capitol Avenue...
Dates:
circa 1840-1876
Temple H. Dunn collection
Collection
Identifier: L262
Scope and Contents
The collection consists primarily of Dunn's correspondence from the period 1866-1919. Included are Temple Dunn's letters to his brother, William R. Dunn, an Alton furniture maker (1866-1880); letters to his daughter, written while he was living at the Soldiers' Home (1904-1909); letters to Dunn from W.R. Dunn, principally when working with Peckinpaugh, Harrison and Company, an Alton wagon company (1892-1897); and other family letters from Jamestown, Boone County (1878), and from Wells College,...
Dates:
1855-1950
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
/
Temple H. Dunn collection
