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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

Before the short item for today, I am happy to pass along an announcement about an on-line exhibition of daguerreotypes. "Daguerreotypes at Harvard" features a group of twelve images from their collections. The URL is: http://preserve.harvard.edu/new/exhibit/intro1.html The image of John Fitzgibbon as well as that of Edwin Forrest are quite exceptional. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - On this day (February 7) in the year 1848, the following news item appeared in the "Boston Daily Evening Transcript": SOMETHING NEW IN THE ART. Mr. J. A. Whipple 96 Washington street has succeeded in obtaining recently perfect and vivid impressions in Daguerreotype of some peculiar lesions connected with Ship Typhus. We learn that these impressions were taken from the morbid specimens themselves furnished by a physician in this city who is engaged in original investigations of the above disease. -------------------------------------------------------------- 02-07-97

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