A beautiful collection of eight images including four sixth-plate daguerreotypes, two quarter-plate daguerreotypes, one ninth-plate daguerreotype and one ninth-plate ambrotype, all related to the family of Isiah Price, whom we assume was the daguerreian in the family. All of the images have penned paper notes including identifying the subjects. The first image is identified as Isiah Price, the father of Lucy Price McIntire, who penned the notes. This image, showing a portion of a painted studio backdrop, is housed in a broken leather case which bears the imprint in the velvet "Price's Gallery 211 Baltimore St., Baltimore" Despite extensive searching, this daguerreian gallery is unrecorded by any photographic historian to date. We would date the image and the case to the mid-1850's.

The second image is also identified as Isiah Price, at an earlier age. The image with its octagonal mat pre-dates the use of brass preservers, and is in a Plumbe-design leather case with a purple silk liner. The next image is a ninth-plate daguerreotype, showing a portion of a studio backdrop possibly the same as that used in the first image. The subject here is probably Philip Price, brother of Isiah.

The young child in the next sixth-plate daguerreotype is Lucy Price MacIntire, again appearing to be from the mid-1850's. The elderly gentlman with the transfixing look in the sixth-plate image is identified as grandfather Benjamin Price; the image is housed in a floral motif split leather case, with a red silk liner and no preserver, indicating a date in the 1840's.

The couple shown in the next image, a quarter-plate, are identified as Isiah Price and his wife Lydia. The image was obviously taken on the same day as the first image of Isiah; he is dressed identically and the same studio backdrop and chair is visible. His arm is interlocked with that of his wife, but what book they are holding open is not identifiable. Unfortunately, this image is not cased; and there is a reddish streak in the upper left, which appears to be in the image itself(?). The final image illustrated is also a quarter-plate, of grandfather Benjamin and his wife Jenny. Housed in a split leather case with a velvet liner and pre-dating the brass preserver, it may have been taken at the same time as the single image of him. The final image in this collection is a ninth-plate ambrotype, not illustrated, of Lucy's step-grandmother, Sarah Heald. All of these images could use cleaning; most of the posings are interesting individually, but as a family record including, probably, three views of the daguerreian himself (a camera, a camera, my kingdom for a camera!), they comprise a unique historical document. Some record of Price's Gallery will ultimately be found. The collection of eight images, $1,795.00.