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The Edward Missling photograph album contains 88 photographs, primarily individual and group portraits, views of homes, and natural scenes presumed to be near Haverhill Mass.

The Edward Missling photograph album (15 x 18 cm) contains 88 total photographs with various developing-out and printing-out paper prints, including a few cyanotypes. Several have artful vignettes with a butterfly design. "Edward Missling" is inscribed in white ink on lavender paper inside the front cover. The album contains individual and group portraits, views of homes, and natural scenes presumed to be near Haverhill Mass. Of note are several images of women dressed in men's clothing, a woman in a bonnet holding a large chicken, a bee-keeper at a hive, and a post-mortem portrait of a man taken in a home showing the body under a mosquito net.

The album has a red leather cover with stamped gilt title "Photographs" and his housed in a gray wrapper with a brown cloth spine and white printed label.