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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 THE 1910s
July 1910
Photographic Times (New York)
Ewer archive: P9100001
text title: "A Glimpse at Old Daguerreotype Days in Manhattan"
notes: Anecdotal remarks regarding daguerreian activity in New York.
keywords: A. J. Hargrave, Edward Anthony, 205 Broadway, Scovill
June 1911
Wilson's Photographic Magazine
(Boston)
Ewer archive: P9110001
text title: "Centenary of Dr. John William Draper, First Portrait Photographer"
notes: A profile of some length of the daguerreian activities of John W. Draper. With portrait.
keywords: John William Draper, Samuel F. B. Morse, Mathew B. Brady, "dags"
December 1915
American Photography (Boston)
Ewer archive: P9150001
author name: John A. Anderson
text title: "The Daguerreotype"
notes: A reminiscence of one who worked during the daguerreian era, although primarily as an amateur.
keywords: John A. Anderson
11 February 1917
New-York Tribune
Ewer archive: N9170001
author name: Robert C. Benchley
text title: "Unpublished Portraits"
notes: An illustrated humorous article about both the (supposed) addiction to having one's daguerreotype taken, and the unending supply of the "hitherto unpublished portrait."
keywords: Robert C. Benchley
10 May 1917
Youth's Companion (Boston)
Ewer archive: P9170002
author name: C. A. Stephens
text title: "That Mysterious 'Daguerreotype Saloon'"
notes: An fiction tale of two girls and an old traveling daguerreotype saloon; with illustration.
keywords: C. A. Stephens, Charles Asbury Stephens, traveling daguerreotype saloon, wagon
November 1917
Photo-Era (Boston)
Ewer archive: P9170001
author name: Wilfred A. French
text title: "Repairing a Rare Daguerreotype"
notes: An anecdote regarding the fate of a misguiding cleaning.
keywords: Wilfred A. French
January 1918
News Notes of California Libraries
(Sacramento)
Ewer archive: P9180001
author name: Charles B. Turrill
text title: "An Early California Photographer: C: E: Watkins"
notes: An article written by someone who knew Watkins; discusses Watkins' copy photographs of daguerreotypes presumably by Vance.
keywords: Charles Beebe Turrill, Carleton E. Watkins, Robert H. Vance
January 1919
Photo-Era (Boston)
Ewer archive: P9190001
author name: Michael Gross
text title: "The 'Wet' and the 'Dry'"
notes: The article includes information regarding S. F. B. Morse and his "Palace of the Sun."
keywords: Samuel F. B. Morse, John Frederick Goddard