With the Ambrotyper's Self-Portrait
SOLD March 2008 |
Ninth plate ambrotype of a woman, with a reverse advertising card bearing a faded salt-print image of the photographer, E.S. Wormell. Card imprinted "E. S. Wormell Ambrotyper & Photographer / Rooms, No. 1 Union Block Factory Island, Saco Me. / Pictures Taken at the Lowest Prices / Also Neatly set in Lockets, Pins, Rings, &c." Housed in a full case with split spine.
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