Purse decorated with collodion positive photograph

PART OF:
The Kodak Museum Collection
Made:
circa 1860
Purse decorated with collodion positive portrait of a man
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The Kodak Collection at the National Media Museum, Bradford
Science Museum Group Collection

Bookform purse, 10 x 6.5cm, in ivory or bone faced with inset Collodion positive of a head and shoulders of a middle aged man, oval 2.5 x 1.8cm in rope-work brass mount. Silk-lined interior.

A book-form purse with an ivory or bone face inset with a collodion positive photographic portrait of a middle-aged man, taken by an unknown photographer in about 1860.

Details

Category:
Photographs
Collection:
Kodak Collection
Object Number:
1990-5036/2808
Materials:
ivory, bone, brass (copper, zinc alloy) and silk
Measurements:
overall (purse): 65 mm x 100 mm
overall (image): 25 mm x 18 mm
type:
purse and collodion positive
credit:
The Kodak Collection at the National Media Museum, Bradford