Frank Bell Governor, Nevada State Prison Warden Rare 1850s Ambrotype Political mourning The cases are generally in

The cases are generally in good antique condition with some edge and/or corner chips

showing a man on a table surrounded by real human cadavers

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The daguerreotypes are in overall very good or better antique condition

Frank Bell Governor, Nevada State Prison Warden Rare 1850s Ambrotype Political mourning The cases are generally inRare original sixth plate ambrotype of Francis "Frank" Jardine Bell, photographedby Broadbent in Philadelphia, probably right before he headed off to Nevada atthe early age of just 18, to supervise the construction of the transcontinentaltelegraph line. He would become a telegraph operator, and telegraphed Nevada'sConstitution to Washington, D. C. in 1864, later becoming the 6th governor ofNevada (and first foreign born governor)and warden of the