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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

On this day (April 9, 1853) the following notice appeared in the Illustrated News (New York): ---------------------------------------------------------------------- GURNEY'S MAGNIFICENT GALLERY. -----The collection of Daguerreotypes at Gurney's Gallery, No. 349 Broadway, is unquestionably the finest and most extensive in America. The walls of his spacious exhibition room are literally covered with first class pictures taken by himself, and embracing such a representation of the celebrities of this and other countries, as never before was grouped in a national exhibition. His instruments and other apparatus are the most perfect and costly kind, and the compliment with which the American Institute accompanied the Gold Medal awarded him at the late Fair, was but the echo of public opinion. He produces faultless portraits in all weather, and at all hours of the day. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 04-09-95

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