You have come to a place where families meet again. A town of family reunions. We sell thousands of identified 19th c. lost family photos and antique paper such as daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes, carte de visite CDV photographs, cabinet cards, stereoviews, RPPC real photo postcards, Victorian calling cards, rewards of merit, family bibles, handwritten letters, deeds and historical documents for genealogy. Our site has over 13,000 surnames and over 4,200 lost family photos and antique paper ephemera. You can buy the original or a close up intimate scan we'll upload to a web page for you. Join our active Ancestorville Genealogy page on facebook, and post to our genealogy forums. Happy family treasure hunting and welcome to our town! -Debra Clifford, Town Historian ... Read More
Debra Clifford
Ancestorville Town Historian
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Smith & Titus: 1890-1910 Business Card of 2 Worcester Attorneys, MA. Beautiful early American typography from Massachusetts.
Ambrotypes
(also known as “ambros”) are an image developed on an early glass plate. They are generally placed in antique decorative wooden hinged cases (as seen above) much like daguerreotype photos or “dags”. Most ambrotype photos found today are unsigned, whereby the photographer’s name and whereabouts are unknown and lost forever in time. Occasionally at Ancestorville, we find identified ambrotypes with a family name handwritten on a slip of paper placed inside the case, or taped to the photo, as above. This is an uncommon occurrence, and finding an identified family ambrotype is always a treat.