Beschreibung:

A collection of images of the various members of Jesse James's family, including: ROBERT SALLEE JAMES. Quarter plate daguerreotype, in case. DR. REUBEN SAMUEL. Quarter plate tintype, in partial case. An early portrait. ZERELDA JAMES. 8 x 10 inch gelatin silver print portrait of the mother of Frank and Jesse James, c.1910. MARY JAMES BARR. Albumen print cabinet card, Daughter of Jesse James. ROBERT JAMES Albumen print cabinet card, c.1900, plus two CDV sized tintypes of the son of Frank James as a child, with cut signature. JOHN T. SAMUEL. 5 x 7 inch gelatin silver print portrait, c.1910, no imprint, but photographer's note identifying sitter on mat. SUSAN JAMES PARMER. Albumen print cabinet card photograph of Jesse's sister and family, imprint of W.A. Lloyd, Wichita Falls, to mount. SARAH SAMUEL. Albumen print cabinet card of Jesse and Frank's half sister and family, with "Strong / Kearney MO" imprint. WITH: 2 CDV size tintype portraits of Sarah. JAMES, DRURY WOODSON, and L.M. JAMES. Albumen print cartes-de-visite of each, each identified in script at lower image, L.M.'s possibly annotated by Frank James, with SF imprint to verso, c.1865. LENNIE T. HOWARD and JINNIE E. CAR. Albumen print cartes-de-visite of each identified on the verso in pen (with address as well), SF imprint. Note indicates the two women were girlfriends of Frank James at one time. WITH: a letter of Zerelda James to Frank James, April 13, 1910, in the hand of a guest who wrote for her; several additional disputed photographs. WITH: a pair of albumen print cabinet cards of Zerelda James taken approx. 30 years apart, framed together. Provenance: the majority purchased from Gary Hendershott, 1990s.