ambrotypes (photographs)
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Photographs produced by mounting a negative (made by a variant of the wet collodion process) that is on glass with a dark backing, which makes the image appear as a positive. Came into wide use in the United States in the early 1850s.
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Ambrotype portrait of Nakoosa Stará Moreland by Shane Balkowitsch
Collection
Identifier: Org. Lot 1425
Abstract
Collection consists of one 8 x 10-inch ambrotype on a glass plate of Nakoosa Stará Moreland taken by Shane Balkowitsch, one copy of Balkowitsch's book, "Northern Plains Native Americans: A Modern Wet Plate Perspective Volume 2," and digital photographs taken behind the scnenes during Moreland's studio sessions.
Dates:
2021-2023
Cased photographs collection
Collection
Identifier: Org. Lot 1414
Abstract
Collection consists of approximately 630 cased photographs, including daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, and tintypes (also called ferrotypes) dating from approximately 1840-1900. The photographs are primarily portraits of early migrants to Oregon and the western United States. Also represented are early Oregon street and residential scenes.
Dates:
1840-2000; Majority of material found within 1840-1900