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 THE DAGUERREOTYPE: AN ARCHIVE OF SOURCE TEXTS, GRAPHICS, AND EPHEMERA


  The research archive of Gary W. Ewer regarding the history of the daguerreotype

TEXTS FROM 1853
1853
Illustrated Family Christian Almanac
Ewer archive: P8530005
header: "Daguerre"
notes: A brief text accompanied by a wood engraving of Daguerre after a daguerreotype by Charles R. Meade.
keywords: Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre, Charles Richard Meade
1853
Ewer archive: E8530001
author name: Isaac W. Baker (assumed)
text title: "Proclamation!!!"
notes: A poem from an advertising sheet for the daguerreotype saloon operated by Isaac Baker.
keywords: Isaac W. Baker, Batchelder's daguerreotype saloon, Batchelder's dageuerrian saloon
28 January 1853
Evening Post (New York)
Ewer archive: N8530002
header: "Gold Medal—The First Premium"
notes: An advertisement by Jeremiah Gurney mentioning both his award from the Fair of the American Institute and the exhibition of the views of California (taken by Robert Vance).
keywords: Jeremiah Gurney, Albert Litch, Robert H. Vance, 189 Broadway, 349 Broadway
10 March 1853
(manuscript)
Ewer archive: S8530001
author name: Mathew B. Brady
notes: An invitation to the editors of Literary World to attend the opening of Mathew Brady's new gallery at 359 Broadway.
keywords: Mathew B. Brady, 359 Broadway, Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck
19 March 1853
Literary World
Ewer archive: P8530007
notes: A brief review of Brady's new gallery at 359 Broadway.
keywords: Mathew B. Brady, 359 Broadway, Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck
22 April 1853
New-York Tribune
Ewer archive: N8390004
text title: "Photography in the United States"
notes: A lengthy, useful article providing a brief history but especially informative with details and statictics regarding American daguerreian activities.
keywords: Louis J. M. Daguerre, François Arago, Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, crystalotype, stereoscope, David Brewster, Levi L. Hill, Samuel F. B. Morse, James R. Chilton, James Miles Wattles, William Henry Fox Talbot, James Campbell, Mathew B. Brady, ivorytype, John A. Whipple, Dr. George Phillip Bond, Armand Hippolyte Louis Fizeau, Antoine Claudet, Charles H. Williamson, talbotype, calotype, crystalotype, ivorytype, Niepce de Saint Victor
11 June 1853
Illustrated News
Ewer archive: P8530003
supplemental file: graphic and basic notes
text title: "Photography: Brady's Daguerrean Saloon"
notes: A wood-engraving illustration and description of Brady's gallery above Thompson's gallery at 359 Broadway.
keywords: Mathew B. Brady, 359 Broadway
18 June 1853
Literary World
Ewer archive: P8530011
notes: Brief comments about the "ghastly" daguerreotypes seen in New York, compared to the artistic daguerreotypes of Haas, specifically a daguerreotype of Madame Alboni.
keywords: Philip Haas, Madame Alboni, 371 Broadway
July 1853
Godey's Lady's Book
Ewer archive: P8530002
author name: Miss A. D. Woodbridge
text title: "Thoughts Over the Daguerreotypes. Written Upon Leaving Brooklyn"
notes: A poem of typical sentimentality.
keywords: A. D. Woodbridge
1853 (after 14 July 1853)
Ewer archive: B8530003
title: Official Catalogue of the New-York Exhibition of the Industry of all Nations. 1853
notes: The catalogue of the New York Crystal Palace. This text provideds the list of entries of daguerreotypes and related articles
keywords: Samuel Root, Marcus A. Root, Phillip Haas, Jeremiah Gurney, E. C. Hawkins, A. Bisbee, S. P. Barnaby, William E. North, E. L.. Webster, Earnest Van Herringen, Sheldon K. Nichols, Antony C. Zuckey, Capt. P. Von Schneidau, Henry Pollock, Thomas Favis [Faris–ed.], Masury & Silsbee, J. H. Whitehurst, Henry E. Insley, Louis V. J. Pfeiffer, Ndw-York State Daguerrean Association, George N. Barnard, William Lewis, William H. Lewis, A. Washington, Alexander Hesler, Charles. C. Lincoln, Charles C. Harrison, David Clark, John A. Whipple, Edward Long, Martin M. Lawrence, F. Moissinet, Donald McDonell, A. J. Beals, C. C Kessy, Edward Anthony, Harrison & Hills, John F. Fitzgibbon, Meade Brothers, Mathew B. Brady, George M. Howe, James Brown, Charles H. Williamson, Scovill Manufacturing
1853 (after 14 July 1853)
Ewer archive: B8530001
author name: Horace Greeley
text title: "Daguerreotypes"
title: Art and Industry as Represented in the Exhibition at the Crystal Palace New York, 1853–4
notes: A review of the daguerreotypes exhibited at the 1853 New York Crystal Palace
keywords: Voigtlander, Levi L. Hill, Martin M. Lawrence, "The Three Ages", Gabriel Harrison, Mathew B. Brady, Jeremiah Gurney, Charles R. Meade, Henry W. M. Meade , Meade Brothers, "portrait of Daguerre", Marcus A. Root, John H. Fitzgibbon, Ezekiel Hawkins, Jesse H. Whitehurst, Edward Z. Webster, John V. Polycarp Von Schneideau, David Clark, Eliphalet M. Brown, Jr., Philip Haas, Alexander Hesler, "Driving a Trade", Thomas J. Dobyns, V. L. Richardson, Samuel Masury, George M. Silsbee, McDonnell & Co., Charles C. Harrison, G. W. Hill, W. C. North, Albert Bisbee, Enoch Long, Alonzo J. Drummond, crystallotypes, crystalotypes, hyalotypes
6 August 1853
Waverley Magazine (Boston)
Ewer archive: P8530008
author name: George W. Bungay
text title: "Daguerreotype Materials"
notes: A review of the daguerreotype stock establishment of Benjamin French, Boston.
keywords: George Washington Bungay, Benjamin French, Luther Holman Hale, 109 Washington
20 August 1853
Waverley Magazine (Boston)
Ewer archive: P8530009
author name: George W. Bungay
text title: "Hale's Picture Gallery"
notes: A review of the daguerreotype gallery of Luther Holman Hale, Boston.
keywords: Luther Holman Hale, 109 Washington, George Washington Bungay
September 1853
Photographic Art-Journal
Ewer archive: P8530001
author name: Gabriel Harrison
text title: "Crystal Palace Daguerreotype vs: The New York Tribune"
notes: Pointed remarks by Harrison criticizing Horace Greeley's review of the daguerreotypes exhibited at the 1853 New York Crystal Palace.
keywords: Gabriel Harrison, Horace Greeley, Dogberry, Martin M. Lawrence, "The Three Ages", Harrison & Hill, Harrison and Hill, Levi L. Hill
18 September 1853
Household Words (London)
Ewer archive: P8530012
author name: Edmund Saul Dixon
text title: "More Work for the Ladies"
notes: A humorous account regarding a female daguerreotypist is France.
keywords: Edmund Saul Dixon
November 1853
Photographic Art-Journal
Ewer archive: P8530014
author name: William H. C. Hosmer
text title: "To Helia"
notes: A poem inspired by a daguerreotype by Gabriel Harrison.
keywords: William H. C. Hosmer, Gabriel Harrison, Helia, Helena, Edward Anthony, 308 Broadway
12 November 1853
Illustrated News
Ewer archive: P8530015
supplemental file: graphic and basic notes
text title: "Gurney's Daguerean Saloon—Broadway, New York"
notes: A brief biograpical sketch of Gurney accompanied by a wood-engraving illustration of the interior of his gallery at 349 Broadway.
keywords: Jeremiah Gurney, 349 Broadway
24 December 1853
Waverley Magazine (Boston)
Ewer archive: P8530010
text title: "Daguerrean Gallery"
notes: A sketch of the daguerreian gallery of Jesse Stone, Boston.
keywords: Jesse Stone, 28 Hanover, Tremont Row