b. Antique c1895 Bellona, NY Post Office Town View Glass Negative Gelatin Dry Plate. Glass negative with a photo print. Bellona is a hamlet in Yates County, New York, United States. The community is 6.9 miles (11.1 km) north-northeast of Penn Yan. Bellona has a post office with ZIP code 14415, which opened on May 14, 1816. Glass Negative: Gelatin Dry Plate is machine coated; even coating at edges; clean cut glass; occasionally varnished; less density range tends to tarnish; usually cool image ton. Photo a bit faded.

From the former studio of JE Hale in Canandaigua NY where Susan B Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and other suffragettes and famous Western NY'ers where photographed by the noted photographer before he sold the studio and moved to Geneva. This fixture was found in his long lost store room, sealed off years ago and forgotten until recently discovered. 

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