1863
Descriptive notes for George Schmidt, 1863, George Schmidt's Psaligraphic Album, (New York: Charles Becker)
[George Schmidt's Psaligraphic Album]

Album page
The Jeffrey Kraus Collection
"George Schmidt, the celebrated and ONLY Psaligrapher, has exhibited his peculiar art before H.M. the Queen Victoria, also the Emperor of France, the Governor General of the Island of Cuba, and other most prominent persons and artists, and has brought to perfection the highly difficult science of creating the most natural and espressior(?) Pictures and Scenes, even of incredible smallness, by a simple pair of scissors and a piece of black paper. Induced by a great many of his friends and admirers of his art, he offers in this Album the photographs of some of the best pictures, he has cut out with a common pair of scissors. For Originals, cut with scissors, apply to the Publisher, 47 East Houston Street, N.Y."
 
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