Unidentified photographer / artist
1861, 15 December (letter)
(Daguerreotypes during the American Civil War)
Book page
Google BooksLetter XVIII, from Richard Derby at Ball's Bluff, Camp Foster, Poolesville, Md., December 15th, 1861. IN Lydia Mintum Post
Soldiers' Letters, from Camp, Battlefield and Prison (New York: Bunce & Huntington, 1865), p.50.
Professor Lowe has been up here with his reconnoitring balloon, and made an ascension. I don't know that he made any important discoveries I will go up town some day, and see If the artist that keeps a daguerreotype shop on wheels can take a miniature on mailable material. If he can, I will send you one. . . .
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