Frank Bell Governor, Nevada State Prison Warden Rare 1850s Ambrotype Political outlaw Minor mount warping

Minor mount warping

a 1/4 plate in a full case and 1/6 plate in half case

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then I noticed the advertising line at the bottom - in addition to being the photographer

identified by last name on the back as:Cobb

Frank Bell Governor, Nevada State Prison Warden Rare 1850s Ambrotype Political outlaw Minor mount warpingRare 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