c1860 CDV Photo of Reverend Mr. Trumbull American Presbyterian Minister in Chile
$ 8.19
Description
c1860 CDV Photo of Reverend Mr. Trumbull American Presbyterian Minister in Chile. The studio photograph is by Helsby of Valparaiso, Chile. They are indeed real photographs, not photos of paintings or photos of photos, and collectors call them "album fillers". This is one of a few Helsby photographsrom Valparaiso, Chile that were in this New Zealand album. I am currently offering 19th century cartes-de-visite photos found in a disintegrating period mother-of-pearl album from New Zealand. The photos were collected by and given to a prominent early Dunedin New Zealand settler and colonist named Rob Redmayne, and many of the CDVs in this album feature identified, prominent individuals from the colonial and New Zealand Gold Rush time. Many were taken in prominent New Zealand photographic studios in the Dunedin and Otago region. The identified photographs were verified through image/location searches, perusal of New Zealand museum archives containing identified historic photos, and, in some cases, Wikipedia pages. This is a trimmed CDV photo of the Reverend Mr. Trumbull, an American Presbyterian minister and protestant missionary who founded the Presbyterian Church in Chile. The studio photograph is by Helsby of Valparaiso, Chile. The photographic technology to produce the smaller cartes-de-visites (CDVs) was only a few years old at the time this portrait was taken, and it became popular for those who could afford to keep a CDV photo album at the time to collect commercially sold photographic prints of famous and notable individuals who sat for a portrait in the lucky photographic studios that sold them. They are indeed real photographs, not photos of paintings or photos of photos, and collectors call them "album fillers". This is one of a few Helsby photographs rom Valparaiso, Chile that were in this New Zealand album. He is identified by the album owner on the back. PLEASE NOTE THAT A GREAT MANY PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THIS ALBUM WERE INSCRIBED "REDMAYNE" OR "R. REDMAYNE" ON THE BACK DESPITE BEING OF MANY DIFFERENT PEOPLE--AND SOMETIMES CONTAINING A DIFFERENT NAME AS WELL. REDMAYNE WAS NOT THE SUBJECT OF THESE PHOTOS; HE WAS THE COLLECTOR OF THEM, THE OWNER OF THE ALBUM THEY WERE FOUND IN. HIS NAME WAS INSCRIBED ON THE BACKS EITHER BY THE PEOPLE WHO GAVE HIM THE PHOTOS OR BY THE STUDIOS HE ORDERED PRINTS FROM. International buyers, this will be shipped USPS as a non-machinable letter in a rigid cardboard mailer. I offer combined shipping.
