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Call Number:

PH-02723

Collection Name:

Photographic Jewelry and Novelties Collection

No. of Items:

26 items

Span Dates:

circa 1843-1900

Description:

The collection is comprised of 26 items, including 16 examples of photographic jewelry (lockets, swivel brooches, stick pins, etc.) and 10 photographic novelties (paper weights, boxes, etc.), as well as three cases and one easel created to contain or display objects.

Accession No(s):

2000:0037:0001a-b -- Acquisition information unavailable; 964:0101:0001-0025 -- Purchase, 1963; 964:0101:0001-0025; 988:0116:0001; 2000:0037:0001a-b; 988:0116:0001 -- Acquisition information unavailable

Finding Aid URL:

https://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/findingAid.cfm?eadid=01240

Location(s):

Photographic Jewelry and Novelties Box 1 (964:0101:0017b, 0019a)
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6 osb Gernsheim Jewelry and Novelties (Boxes 01-06)
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Special permission required 2 osb, Non-Gernsheim Jewelry and Novelties (Boxes 1-2)
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Item(s):
Artist/Maker W. & J. Milne
Title Cartes-de visite Fan
Date circa 1862
Accession
Number		 5035177
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title [Brooch with Photographic Portrait of Woman]
Date ca. 1875
Accession
Number		 5035662
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title Daisy pendant
Date circa 1865
Medium Salted paper prints in gold and enamel pendant
Accession
Number		 5035750
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title Portrait of Prince Albert set in pendant
Date 1861 December
Medium Salted paper print portrait set in gold and enamel pendant with drop pearl
Accession
Number		 5035751