ambrotypes
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Delavan Levant Leonard Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-223
Scope and Contents
The papers of Delavan Levant Leonard provide an outline of the life of a college and seminary trained minister working in the Midwest as a struggling young minister in the 1870s, and in the developing American West during the 1880s. Leonard's work in the West was conducted under the auspices of the American Home Missionary Society, for whom he served as superintendent of Home Missions for Utah, Idaho, Montana, and western Wyoming. Based in Utah, Leonard observed the Mormon community and...
Dates:
1834-1917, undated; Other: Date acquired: 1975 September 5
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Photographs: Daguerreotypes, Ambrotypes, and Tintypes
Collection
Identifier: RG 32-003-004
Scope and Contents
Cased images represent the first forms of photographs taken at Oberlin, with the earliest dating from soon after the invention of photography in 1839, and the majority from the 1850s. In the United States, daguerreotypes were the first common expressions of photography. Daguerreotypes, ambrotypes and tintypes exist only as single unique images that are not generated from negatives. These images typically appear in period cases, which protected the cover glass of daguerreotypes and...
Dates:
ca. 1840-ca. 1860; Other: Majority of material found in 1850s; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1966
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives