Curational comment from "Dawn's Early Light: The First 50 Years of American Photography", October 20, 2011 - May 4, 2012, Hirshland Exhibition Gallery in Carl A. Kroch Library, Cornell University
Photography entrepreneur Charles D. Fredricks (1823-1894) was one of the first Americans to produce cartes de visite. He was a leading competitor of Brady and Gurney who, like Fredricks, had elaborate galleries on Broadway in New York. Fredricks specialized in cartes de visite and is said to have been the largest producer of the photographs in America. One contemporary wrote, "Some of the Parisian Galleries were fine, but nothing to be compared with Fredricks', and the finest establishments in London did not bear slightest comparison."
