Two items today... On this day (November 5) in the year 1849, the following item appeared in "The Daily Chronotype" (Vol. 8., No. 17): - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - One of our fashionable daguerreotypers was called upon a few days since by a lady, to know if he could take daguerreotypes by imagination. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - (more) and in the November 1850 issue of "Holden's Dollar Magazine (page 696): Mr. Brady has published a lithograph portrait of Jenny Lind, executed by D'Avignon, from a Daguerreotype taken by Mr. B. The lithograph portraits of distinguished Americans, published by Brady and D'Avignon, have secured for these gentlemen a most enviable reputation, which this portrait of Jenny Lind will not injure, though it may not enhance. We regret that it does not give Jenny's happiest or best expression--perhaps a copy of a Daguerreotype could not. It gives an idea of strength of character, but the enthusiasm, the hearty sympathy, the soul which make the really ordinary face of Jenny Lind a face of extraordinary beauty when lit up from within, do not find their expression in this picture. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 11-05-96