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Series VI: Cases

General Note

Where identified, the maker's name appears in brackets after the image title.

To locate the box number of a particular case, consult the list in the Arrangement note.

Union Case (no image), 1861/05/02 (?)

item: 6-1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Eames Family Case

item: 6-2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Case (no image) [Keenan], [1853]

item: 6-2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Case

item: 6-3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Union Case (no image)

item: 6-4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Union Case (no image), 1863/07/23

item: 6-5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

General note

Seal with casemaker's identification is inscribed with the following: "Rutland July 23, 1863 James L. Ainsworth To Aunt Nancy Price 1.50"

Union Case (no image)

item: 6-6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Original Case for Crystal Palace Daguerreotype, 1854/00/00

item: 6-7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

General note

Container inscribed: Daguerreotype removed for exhibition, do not return to this...

Union Case (no image)

item: 6-8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

General note

Case design from painting by Asher B. Durand.

Union Case (no image)

item: 6-9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Union Case (no image)

item: 6-10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

6 Empty Cases

item: 6-11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

18 Case Halves

item: 6-12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

14 Edge Preservers

item: 6-13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

2 Mat Packages

item: 6-14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

25 Mats

item: 6-15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

8 Tintype Case Remnants

item: 6-16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
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