Cased Photos, mid-1800s
![[Mary Susan Rice]](http://www.mtholyoke.com/pcsite/letters/images/Rice.jpeg)
History
Daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, and ferrotypes (tintypes) are often found in hinged cases. I've included a few tintypes here that were not in cases.
The Images
All photos are available with front scans, and comments about what is written on the front or back are included below.
- Tintype of Four Women
- front Tintype of four women in a living room. Scratched into the back: "1/10 Holyoke"
- Four classmates from 1867
- front A tintype portrait of four women in traveling clothes. Inscription below the photo in the album: "Emma Stiles and Alice Stiles and two Mt Holyoke '67 classmates"
- Family Ambrotype
- front An ambrotype of a man, woman, and two young girls. Inscription on a piece of paper tucked inside the case: "Brown Brown / Ethie older child / Corrine Brown was gr. gr. Brownson / about 4 yrs old half sister
Effi Ethie 3 yrs older / Great Grandma Brownson was Corrine Brown born [sic - should be 'married'] June 22 1880 Graduated U. of Minn. also went to Mount Holyoke, Mass. born Waterbury, Vermont"
- Four Mount Holyoke students, 1861
- front An ambrotype of four young women. A piece of paper enclosed in the case is inscribed: "Jennie and her room mates at Mt Holyoke 1861 - the year she left. Mary Horton Fanny Glidden [sic] Jennie Brown Abbie Pillsbury"
- Mary Warner Eustis as a child, c. 1861
- photo A sticker on the front of the case: "Mary Warner Eustis M. W. E."
- photo A view of the tintype photo within the case. Mary Warner Eustis is the baby.
- photo This is a 9th plate case. This gives you a sense of the size of the photograph.
- photo A closer look at the image
- photo The back of the case
- photo The clasp of the case
- photo The parts of the case
- photo The back of the photo has a tax stamp and Mary Warner Eustis's initials
- photo A close-up of the mat reveals J. Dean, patent Dec 24, 1861
- Daguerreotype Portrait of Mary Susan Rice
- photo The daguerreotype, probably from the 1850s, is identified "Mary S. Rice" on the paper liner of the case, and shows a half-length portrait of Rice in a dark dress with white collar and large brooch. It is in very good condition.