Every so often we find a wonderful early piece from a sport other than football that we like to share on the blog. This is an exceedingly rare sporting Ambrotype c.1859; any sports related photo from this period would be considered a scarcity. This photo is of a coxswain (rowing) and at this point in our research we believe the boat (the Prioress) to be from the Potomac Barge Club.
By the mid 1850s the daguerreotype was being displaced by the ambrotype, somewhat cheaper and easier to produce. The ambrotype created the image on glass as opposed to the earlier daguerreotype which used silver coated copper plates. The image is crystal clear. The cheeks are hand tinted.
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