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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

REMINISCENCES
1858
Ewer archive: B8580005
author name: Henry Hunt Snelling
book title: Sunlight Sketches' or the Photographic Textbook (selected text)
notes: An evocative commentary on the demise of the daguerreotype.
keywords: Henry Hunt Snelling, "O, sad fate of the beautiful daguerreotype!"
15 January 1859
American Journal of Photography
Ewer archive: P8590003
author name: "Shade"
text title: "My First Daguerreotype"
notes: A reminiscence of the first sight of a daguerreotype, also recalling early efforts.
keywords: Shade, First Daguerreotype
May 1869
Harper's New Monthly Magazine
Ewer archive: P8690001
author name: T. B. Thorpe
text title: "Webster, Clay, Calhoun, and Jackson: How They Sat for their Daguerreotypes"
notes: Inidividual ancedotes of these four statesmen sitting for their daguerreotypes.
keywords: Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, Andrew Jackson, Mathew B. Brady
February 1870
Philadelphia Photographer
Ewer archive: P8700001
author name: Edward L. Allen
text title: "Old Times"
notes: A transcript of a paper delivered to the Boston Photographic Association.
keywords: Edward L. Allen, Albert Sands Southworth, Josiah Johnson Hawes, Marcus Ormsbee, George M. Silsbee, John Adams Whipple, James Wallace Black, Austin Augustus Turner
22 June 1871
Anthony's Photographic Bulletin
Ewer archive: P8710001
author name: Montgomery Pike Simons
text title: "An Exquisite Picture"
notes: An anecdote of the taking of a daguerreotype of a child and the family dog.
keywords: Montgomery Pike Simons, Newfoundland dog
October 1871
Philadelphia Photographer
Ewer archive: P8710002
author name: Albert Sands Southworth
text title: "An Address" (delivered June 1870)
notes: A transcript of a paper delivered to the National Photographic Association. Southworth recalls his own history, then follows with a call for artistic study and endeavor.
keywords: Albert Sands Southworth, Joseph Pennell, Josiah Johnson Hawes, François Gouraud, Samuel F. B. Morse, Alexander S. Wolcott, John Johnson, Joseph Ames, Chase, Samuel Bemis, 5 1/2 Tremont Row, 19 Tremont Row, Washington Allston, "Outlines and Sketches"
1873
Ewer archive: B8730001
author names: T. A. Barry and B. A. Patten
book title: Men and Memories of San Francisco: in the "Spring of '50" (selected text)
notes: In this reminiscence of San Francisco in 1850, the authors mention Henry W. Bradley (later of Bradley and Rulofson).
keywords: Henry W. Bradley
July 1877
St. Louis Practical Photographer
Ewer archive: B8750001
author name: James Wallace Black
text title: "Days Gone By"
notes: A reminiscence by Black regarding daguerreian activity in Boston.
keywords: James Wallace Black, John A. Leroy, Albert Sands Southworth, Josiah Johnson Hawes, John Adams Whipple, Luther Holman Hale, Benjamin French
February 1884
Photographic Times
and American Photographer

Ewer archive: P8840002
author name: Abraham Bogardus
text title: "Thirty-seven Years Behind a Camera"
notes: The present text is among the first of Bogardus' many reminiscences.
keywords: Abraham Bogardus, George W. Prosch, Levi L. Hill
March 1884
Photographic Times
and American Photographer

Ewer archive: P8840001
author name: Edward Tompkins Whitney
text title: "Reminiscences"
notes: Reminiscence of Edward T. Whitney who worked first in New York City, then Rochester, New York. The text is a fuller version of a later account given in 1889.
keywords: Edward Tompkins Whitney, Seth Boyden, John W. Draper, Thomas R. Whitney, Martin M. Lawrence, Jeremiah Gurney, George N. Barnard, D. D. T. Davie, Mathew Brady, Abraham Bogardus, Andrew W. Paradise, Charles A. Seeley, Henry Hunt Snelling, and Samuel Dwight Humphrey, James Wallace Black, John Dunmore, James F. Gibson, Silas A. Holmes, Alexander Gardiner, Jacob F. Coonley, Timothy O'Sullivan
22 May 1886
Anthony's Photographic Bulletin
Ewer archive: P8860001
text title: "Photographic Section of the American Institute"
notes: Reminiscences provided by John B. Gardner, Jeremiah Gurney, Abraham Bogardus, and Alexander Becker.
keywords: John B. Gardner, William Lewis, William H. Lewis, Richard A. Lewis, 142 Chatham, Alexander S. Wolcott, John Johnson, James R. Chilton, Samuel F. B. Morse, Jeremiah Gurney, Roche, 189 Broadway, 707 Broadway, Edward White, 187 Broadway, Edward Anthony, Anthony Prize, Abraham Bogardus, George W. Prosch, Alexander Becker, 201 Broadway, 264 Broadway, 411 Broadway, Becker & Piard, Augustus Morand, Ormsbee
1887
American Annual of Photography
and Photographic Times
Almanac for 1887

Ewer archive: P8870003
author name: James F. Ryder
title: "A Reminiscence"
notes: An account by Ryder regarding his itinerant daguerreotypy and an incident with a local blacksmith.
keywords: James F. Ryder
14 November 1887
Sun (New York)
Ewer archive: N8870001
text title: "Mr. Bogardus Retires"
notes: A profile of the career of Abraham Bogardus including anecdotes of daguerreotypy.
keywords: Abraham Bogardus, George W. Prosch
22 September 1888
Anthony's Photographic Bulletin
Ewer archive: P8880001
author name: Henry Hunt Snelling
text title: "Looking Back; or, the Olden Days in Photography"
notes: A profile of the Boston daguerreotypist, John Adams Whipple.
keywords: Henry Hunt Snelling, John Adams Whipple, James Wallace Black, steam
15 March 1889
Photographic Times
and American Photographer

Ewer archive: P8890003
author name: Alexander Hesler
text title: "Some Practical Experiences of a Veteran Daguerreotypist"
notes: Comments about how he obtained rapidity exposures with daguerreotype plates.
keywords: Alexander Hesler, "Harpers Traveler's Guide"
15 March 1889
Photographic Times
and American Photographer

Ewer archive: P8890002
author name: Alexander Beckers
text title: "Fifteen Years' Experience of a Daguerreotyper"
notes: Reminiscence of Beckers providing an overview of his daguerreian career.
keywords: Alexander Beckers, Robert Cornelius, James Robert Chilton, Louis Beckers, Frederick Langenheim, William Langenheim, Voightlander, Voigtländer, Joseph Petzval, Armand Hippolyte Louis Fizeau, Edward White, 175 Broadway, Victor Piard, Marcus A. Root, Marcus Ormsbee, John F. Mascher
13 April 1889
Anthony's Photographic Bulletin
Ewer archive: P8890004
author name: Alexander Beckers
text title: "My Daguerreotype Experience"
notes: A variant of the 15 March 1889 Photographic Times text, with some additional comments.
keywords: Alexander Beckers, Robert Cornelius, James Robert Chilton, Louis Beckers, Frederick Langenheim, William Langenheim, Voightlander, Voigtländer, Joseph Petzval, Philip Haas, Armand Hippolyte Louis Fizeau, Edward White, Victor Piard, Marcus A. Root, Marcus Ormsbee, John F. Mascher
June 1889
International Annual of
Anthony's Photographic Bulletin

Ewer archive: P8890001
author name: Edward Tompkins Whitney
text title: "Reminiscences"
notes: Reminiscence of Edward T. Whitney who worked first in New York City, then Rochester, New York. The text is an abbreviated version of the reminiscence given by Whitney in the March 1884 Photographic Times and American Photographer.
keywords: Edward Tompkins Whitney, Edward Anthony, Henry Anthony, Abraham Bogardus, Martin M. Lawrence, Jeremiah Gurney, Marcus A. Root, Andrew W. Paradise, Mathew Brady, George N. Barnard, D. D. T. Davie, James Wallace Black, Frederick A. Wenderoth
1890
Ewer archive: B8900001
author name: John Werge
book title: The Evolution of Photography (selected text)
notes: Written by an Englishman, an extensive reminiscence of his daguerreian travels in America, 1853–1854. Mentions many daguerreotypists by name.
keywords: John Werge, Jeremiah Gurney, Mathew Brady, Martin Lawrence, Samuel Root, Meade Brothers, Samuel Humphrey, Benjamin and Polson; Marcus A. Root, Dr. Bushnel, George Adams, Thomas Easterly, Platt Babbitt, John A. Whipple, James W. Black, Masury and Silsby, E. and H.T. Anthony & Co, Scovill Manufacturing Company, James A. Cutting
April 1891
World (New York)
Ewer archive: N8910001
text title: "Still Taking Pictures"
notes: An lengthy interview with Mathew B. Brady at the age of sixty-seven.
keywords: Mathew B. Brady
24 August 1894
Photographic Times
and American Photographer

Ewer archive: P8940006
text title: "A Veteran Photographer"
notes: A brief reminiscence of Henry E. Insley and daguerreotypy in general.
keywords: Henry Earle Insley, Samuel F. B. Morse, George W. Prosch, Mathew B. Brady
5 October 1894
Photographic Times
and American Photographer

Ewer archive: P8940004
text title: "An Old-Time Photographer and His Reminiscences"
notes: An interview with Mathew B. Brady.
keywords: Mathew B. Brady
26 January 1896
Commercial Gazette (Cincinnati)
Ewer archive: N8960001
author name: James Landy (interviewed)
text title: "The Daguerreotype Art"
notes: A reminiscence of James Landy, who began his life-long career in photography in 1850 at age twelve.
keywords: James Landy, Edwin Forrest, Catherine Forrest, Catherine Sinclair, Charlotte Cushman, Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie, of Edwin Booth, Laura Keene, Father Mathew, Ezekiel C Hawkins [Ezekial ?], Charles R. Rees, Meade Brothers
4 February 1896
Sun (New York)
Ewer archive: N8960003
author name: Wilmot M. Chapman
text title: "Our First Photographers"
notes: A summary of early daguerreotypists in New York.
keywords: A. T. Goodell, John Plumbe, Jr., William H. Butler, John William Draper, James R. Chilton, Samuel F. B. Morse, 7 Bowery, 251 Broadway, Mathew B. Brady, 187 Broadway, Anthony Edward & Clark, Jeremiah Gurney, 189 Broadway, Abraham Bogardus, 217 Greenwish, James L. M. Scovill, Robert H. Vance
July 1898
Camera Notes (New York)
Ewer archive: P8980003
author name: L. E. Chittenden
text title: "An Historical Letter"
notes: A reminiscence of sitting for a daguerreotype in 1842.
keywords: Lucius Eugene Chittenden
30 April 1903
Youth's Companion
Ewer archive: P9030002
text title: "The Days of the Daguerreotype"
notes: A few anecdotes of the daguerreotype related by Abraham Bogardus.
keywords: Abraham Bogardus
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