Framed collection of 62 cased ambrotype portraits of students with a larger ambrotype portrait of a schoolteacher at center

by Ross, photographer

$12,500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

One half-plate 4-1/4 x 5-1/2 in. and 62 ninth-plate 2 x 2-1/2 in. ambrotypes, cheeks rouged, each individually cased, together mounted, framed, and glazed. With 2 gold-painted wood spacers with caption in black paint, “Ambrotypes by Ross, So. Groton 1863. So. Groton Grammer sic School 1863”. 18 x 24 inches overall. A few images spotted, mostly in fine, bright condition. Item #250053 A highly unusual grouping of ambrotypes, a kind of

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