P12521 This collection contains one 1/4 plate ambrotype depicting Chief Okemos [Anishinaabe (Chippewa/Ojibwa)], photographed by Henry H. Smith of Cheboygan, Michigan in 1858. The upper, right hand ...

sixth-plate ambrotype in a decorative mat, in a velvet-lined Florence Compound case produced by A.P. Chritchlow & Co. Mfg. of Daguerreotype Cases ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. This quarter-plate ambrotype made by an unknown photographer, shows the balloon ascension by John Steiner at Erie, Pennsylvania, on June 18, 1857.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — During his momentous U.S. Senate campaign against Stephen A. Douglas, Abraham Lincoln sat for a photograph after politicking in western Illinois and presented one of the copies to ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — During his momentous U.S. Senate campaign against Stephen A. Douglas, Abraham Lincoln sat for a photograph after politicking in western Illinois and presented one of the copies to ...