Fixed in Time

• Free PDF or print-on-demand paperback

• Over 1800 mats & cases from 1840 through 1865 –illustrated and dated

• Case & mat dates based on over 7000 objectively dated early photographs

• Introductory chapters on the history of daguerreotypes, ambrotypes and tintypes

• Tables of preservers, case gilding patterns, case pads and case clasp designs with dates for each

• The product of a lifetime of collecting and a dozen years of research

• File available for all links found in the book

• Fully indexed

• 332 pages, 8½" x 11"

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