Among many triumphs they took one of the earliest photographs of ether being used in a medical operation at Massachusetts General Hospital in 1847.
The building which contained the Southworth & Hawes studio at 5 1/2 Tremont Row in Boston no longer exists as it was leveled when Scollay Square was razed. It was in the area now occupied by the courthouse and police headquarters.Preparing biographies
General reading
Centeno, S. A. , T. Meller, N. Kennedy, M. Wypyski, 2008, ‘The daguerreotype surface as a SERS substrate: characterization of image deterioration in plates from the nineteenth-century studio of Southworth & Hawes,"‘, Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, vol.39 (2008), pp.914–921 [Δ]
Readings on, or by, individual photographers
Romer, Grant B & Wallis, Brian (eds), 2005, Young America: The Daguerreotypes of Southworth & Hawes, (New York: International Center of Photography; Rochester, NY: George Eastman House; Göttingen, Germany: Steidl) [Δ]
Sobieszek, Robert & Appel, Odette M, 1976, The Spirit of Fact: The Daguerreotypes of Southworth and Hawes, 1843–1862, (Boston: David R. Godine) [Δ]
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|  | Southworth & Hawes: Portraits |
|  | Southworth & Hawes: River View with Seated Figure |
|  | Southworth & Hawes: Sculptures |
|  | Southworth & Hawes: Season ticket |
|  | Southworth & Hawes: The Branded Hand of Captain Jonathan Walker |
|  | Southworth & Hawes: The Mass. Charitable Mechanic Association |
|  | Southworth & Hawes: Wedding portraits |
|  | Southworth & Hawes: Wood engraving advertisement |
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"An Address" by Albert S. Southworth to the National Photographic Association; June, 1870.
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This address was delivered Cleveland, Ohio, June, 1871.
From The Philadelphia Photographer Vol. 8, No. 94, (October 1871) pp. 315-323. (This text was also reprinted in The British Journal of Photography 18 [November 1871], pp. 530-532.)
| "A Famous Photographer and his Sitters." An illustrated article regarding Josiah J. Hawes.
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From Demorest's Family Magazine (New York) Vol. 34, No. 5 (April 1898) pp. 134-35, 156.
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The following books are useful starting points to obtain brief biographies but they are not substitutes for the monographs on individual photographers. |
• Beaton, Cecil & Buckland, Gail 1975 The Magic Eye: The Genius of Photography from 1839 to the Present Day (Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown & Company) p.42 [Useful short biographies with personal asides and one or more example images.]
• Capa, Cornell (ed.) 1984 The International Center of Photography: Encyclopedia of Photography (New York, Crown Publishers, Inc. - A Pound Press Book) p.473-474
• Weaver, Mike (ed.) 1989 The Art of Photography 1839-1989 (New Haven and London: Yale University Press) p.466-467 [This exhibition catalogue is for the travelling exhibition that went to Houston, Canberra and London in 1989.]
• Witkin, Lee D. and Barbara London 1979 The Photograph Collector’s Guide (London: Secker and Warburg) p.240-241 [Long out of print but an essential reference work - the good news is that a new edition is in preparation.]
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