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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

I'll be away for a few days vacation, but wanted to give this brief passage as today's DagNews. Cited from Thomas Fayette Jeffries, "Crippled Fayette, of Rockingham" (Mountain Valley [VA] ?: [N.P]., 1957.) Page 158: - - - - - - - CHAPTER XXVI. (eighth paragraph) At Culpeper Court-House I met with an acquaintance, Mr. Stover, who was a Daguerrean Artist, and who owned a small, black Mexican dog that was perfectly hairless. Mr. Stover invited me to come to his Gallery, saying he would take my likeness and present it to me; I told him I would do so if he would agree to take the little dog's also. His response was "Come on, I will 'put you through.'" Two servants carried me down to the gallery; I held the hairless dog on my lap, and soon we were upon the metal plate, looking just like my reader may suppose. (With thanks to Howard McManus for today's item.) -------------------------------------------------------------- 04-08-99

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