The William J. Griffing Collection

Another Sixth Plate Daguerreotype in my collection. The tight sleeves on his jacket indicate to me that the picture may be from the late 1840s, certainly no later than 1850!

A ninth-plate ambrotype from my collection. Probably dates to early 1860s.

Another Sixth plate daguerreotype. An image of two brothers taken during the “Winter of 1851” according to an inscription inside the case.

Another daguerreotype from my collection. This one identified as Martin Luther Abbott (1832-1919) of Sanbornton, New Hampshire, taken in 1852 at Franklin, NH. After his marriage in 1856, Martin moved to Minnesota, and then in 1869, he relocated to Pleasant Hill, Tennessee, where he entered the fruit growing business.