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Union cases

Scope note

Use for molded thermoplastic cases designed to hold portrait photographs, usually daguerreotypes or ambrotypes; customarily hinged and decorated on the outside with relief designs. Patented in the United States by Samuel Peck in 1854.

Term type

AAT

Getty AAT term number

3000261961

Broader Terms used

<document containers>

Term used for

cases, Union
Union cases

Equivalent Terms used

Union case

Created

13yrs ago

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