1850s True Ambrotype of Daughter(?) of William Ware & Susan Reed Howland LOOK for Sale

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1850s True Ambrotype of Daughter(?) of William Ware & Susan Reed Howland LOOK:
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1850s True Ambrotype ofDaughter(?) of William Ware& Susan Reed HowlandTrue ambrotype of possibly daughter of
William Ware Howland & Susan Reed Howland.There\'s a name on the Union case, but I can\'t makeout the first name of the little girl... see photo.
The Howlands had very interesting lives!(See my other listings for a pair of daguerreotypesof William Ware and Susan Reed Howland)
The Union case is lovely but broken... see photos.
About the Howlands:WILLIAM WARE HOWLAND, the son of Southworth and Polly (Ware) Howland,was born in West Brookfield, Mass., February 25, 1817, and was fitted forcollege at West Brookfield and Leicester Academies. He studied theology atUnion Seminary, graduating from there in 1845. On the 14th of October of thesame year he was ordained at South Hadley, and under appointment as a missionaryof the American Board of Missions, he sailed soon after for Ceylon. He was stationedfirst at Batticotta and afterwards at Tillipally in the Jaffna Mission. In 1861, he made avisit to the United States on account of his health, and returned to his post the next year.From the year 1876 he was in charge of the work at Oodooville and the Female Seminary at that station.
He died of chronic dysentery, in Jaffna, Ceylon, August 26, 1892.
Mr. Howland was married, October 14, 1845, to Susan, Daughter of Jonas Reed,of Heath, Mass., who died July 23, 1887. Of eight children, six survive their father.Five of his sons graduated at Amherst College: Rev. Dr. Samuel W. and Rev.William S. in 1870, Rev. John in 1876, Rev. Henry M. in 1862, and David B. in 1883.”
Source: Obituary Record of Graduates of Amherst College, byHenry M. McCloud printer, 1874, pages 12-3
Aboutambrootypes (from Wikipedia):The ambrotype, also known as a collodion positive in the UK, is a positive photograph on glass made by a variant of the wet plate collodion process. Following the invention of daguerreotypes, cheaper than the French invention, ambrotypes came to replace them. Like a print on paper, it is viewed by reflected light. Like the daguerreotype or the prints produced by a Polaroid camera, each is a unique original that could only be duplicated by using a camera to copy it.
The ambrotype was introduced in the 1850s. During the 1860s it was superseded by the tintype, a similar photograph on thin black-lacquered iron, hard to distinguish from an ambrotype if under glass.
The term ambrotype comes from Ancient Greek: ἄμβροτος ambrotos, \"immortal\", and τύπος typos, \"impression\".
The ambrotype was based on the wet plate collodion process invented by Frederick Scott Archer. Ambrotypes were deliberately underexposed negatives made by that process and optimized for viewing as positives instead.[2] In the US, ambrotypes first came into use in the early 1850s. In 1854, James Ambrose Cutting of Boston took out several patents relating to the process. Although Cutting, the patent holder, had named the process after himself, it appears the term, \"ambrotype\" itself may have been first coined in the gallery of Marcus Aurelius Root, a well-known daguerreotypist
Ambrotypes were much less expensive to produce than daguerreotypes, the medium that predominated when they were introduced, and did not have the bright mirror-like metallic surface that could make daguerreotypes troublesome to view and which some people disliked. An ambrotype, however, appeared dull and drab when compared with the brilliance of a well-made and properly viewed daguerreotype.
By the late 1850s, the ambrotype was overtaking the daguerreotype in popularity. In 1858, the New York City Police Department, inspired by the pioneering Criminal Investigation Department in Glasgow, Scotland, used ambrotypes to establish a \"rogues\' gallery\", consisting of portraits of wanted criminals and arrested villains[4]. By the mid-1860s, the ambrotype itself was being replaced by the tintype, a similar image on a sturdy black-lacquered thin iron sheet, as well as by photographic albumen paper prints made from glass plate collodion negatives.
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