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Charles Ross Gibson of Hickory Flat, Kentucky - photographed at Franklin’s Studio on November 10, 1908

Dapper young Lad posing for a Portrait - Sixteenth Plate Ambrotype taken in the United States - 1850s

Portrait of an Irish Lass - Gelatin Silver Print taken around 1910

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Abolitionist Theodore Dwight Weld (1803 - 1895) sits for a portrait with his Granddaughter - at Pelham’s Studio, 44 Boylston Street in Boston - late 1800s

Two Brothers in chequered Pants - Sixth Plate Ambrotype taken in the United States - mid 1800s

Major Daniel Gano - County Court Clerk who created the first Commercial Greenhouse and Botanical Gardens in Cincinnatti - 1872

House Servants posing with the Tools of their Trade, a Dog and a Cat - Photo by C. Volkers of 117 Smith Street, Brooklyn New York - 1870’s

‘Man Sitting in a Gazebo’ - Salt Print by André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri, taken in France - 1852

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‘Portrait of a bearded Man with a Lamp, Eastern Bengal - one of a Series of Studies of Individuals and Groups from Bangladesh and Assam’ - Photographic print published in 1860 

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Bespectacled Gent posing for his Portrait - Ninth Plate Daguerreotype taken in the US - mid 1800s

‘Cat posed with Mexican Serape’ - Ambrotype from the Lawrence T. Jones III Texas Photography Collection

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Brass Band - posing at Strunk’s Studio, 730 Penn Street in Reading, Pennsylvania - late 1800s

‘Michaux sur son Vélocipède (Michaux on his Bicycle)’ - Photograph by Disdéri, taken in 1867

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‘Colonel Joseph Duncan in Military Uniform’ - Daguerreotype taken by Mathew Brady between 1844 and 1849

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