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TWO ALBUMS OF CARTE DE VISITE PHOTOGRAPHS, 19TH CENTURY.

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:50.00 USD Estimated At:100.00 - 200.00 USD
TWO ALBUMS OF CARTE DE VISITE PHOTOGRAPHS, 19TH CENTURY.
The smaller leather album has a metal clasp and gilt-edged sleeves containing approx. 24 carte de visite photographs and one tintype, showing adults and children; c. late 1850s-1860s and later. The name "Lillie A. Stoddard" is inscribed in pencil at the front. Most of the images are on cards for Hartford, New Haven, and Danbury, Connecticut photography studios. 5in. x 3 1/2in. x 1 1/2in. Condition: The leather with allover wear, tears to spine; the sleeves with tears, light soiling; a few photos with light spotting. The larger leather album is gilt embossed with one remaining cameo-embellished clasp, and embossed gilt fore-edges. It contains approx. 49 carte de visites and one tintype, showing adults and children, c. late 1850s-1860s and later. Many of the cards are from New Milford, Connecticut studios, and one photo is mounted on a card for J. E. Northrop. 6 1/8in. x 4 7/8in. x 2 1/8in. Condition: Cracks and wear to the spine, wear to corners; the spine is detached from the leaves, many of which are loose/detached. This lot and the other Chapman-related items offered in this sale were part of a collection of papers and ephemera related to the Edward Mortimer Chapman (1862-1952) family, including his first wife Isabel Northrop Chapman (1864-1920), and second wife, Louise Wadsworth Jones Chapman (1873-1959). Edward M. Chapman was a Connecticut pastor, academic, and author, and a descendant of Robert Chapman, one of the first settlers of Saybrook, Connecticut (c. 1635).