Floyd and Marion Rinhart Collection

Floyd and Marion Rinhart were early collectors of pioneering photographic formats. Their extensive research resulted in a number of publications, still respected today, including American Daguerreian Art (1967) and American Miniature Case Art (1969). The collection is accompanied by their twenty-five volume research guide.


Two substantial purchases were made from the Rinharts’ extensive collection of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century photographs. The first focused on 1,769 cased images – daguerreotypes, ambrotypes and tintypes. The second, approximately 7,500 items, included additional cased photographs as well as prints on paper – cartes de visite, cabinet cards, stereographs, salt prints, albumen prints, and silver gelatin prints. Many are framed or in albums.


Photographic materials collected by the Rinharts with a focus on Florida are housed in the University of Miami Libraries (https://digitalcollections.library.miami.edu/digital/collection/asm0157).