[Early Photography] Group of 35 Sixth Plate Daguerreotypes of Men

Publishers and subjects mostly unidentified. All sixth plate size. Some without cases. Conditions vary. Including:

Standing pose of an older man with white hair, holding a walking stick. Mat soiled, half of case absent; Seated pose of a man with dark hair leaning over a table. Mat soiled, and stamped "Stewart."; Seated pose of a man with white hair leaning on a table. Scattered soiling and tarnishing.

Seated pose of a gentleman tentatively identified as George Rex Graham (1813-1894), editor of the Saturday Evening Post, and later founder Graham's Magazine, with contributors such as William C. Bryant, James Fenimore Cooper, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edgar Allan Poe, and others. Image accompanied by consignor's note behind case and photocopies of pages from Appleton's Encyclopedia of American Biography referencing Graham.

And 31 others. 35 photographs in total.

19th-20th Century Historic Photography Collection of Dr. Joseph T. Pollock

This lot is located in Philadelphia.